Coillte spends more than €500,000 on Slievenamon wildfire response
Coillte, Ireland's semi-state forestry company, says more than €500,000 has been spent on the emergency response to a wildfire on Slievenamon mountain in Co. Tipperary. The fire damaged an estimated 65 hectares of its forestry during this summer's drought.
Coillte, Ireland's semi-state forestry company, has said that more than €500,000 has been spent on the emergency response to the wildfire on Slievenamon mountain in Co. Tipperary. The figure gives an indication of the financial cost of the blaze for the forestry sector.
According to the company, the fire damaged an estimated 65 hectares of its forestry operation on the mountain during the drought period this summer. The area is the company's own estimate.
Coillte has produced a report on the fire. The available excerpt of the source does not set out the rest of the report's contents, so further details on the cause of the fire or how it was tackled are not included here.
