Firefighters put out a major gorse blaze in west Belfast this morning.
An area covering a square kilometre of Divis Mountain in west Belfast was affected yesterday. Six fire engines attended the scene last night and the fire was eventually extinguished this morning.
Around 60 firefighters were called to a separate fire in the Feeny area of Co Derry yesterday. A total of 80 acres were affected before the blaze was put out.
On Monday, around 12 acres of gorse were destroyed in a blazes on Black Mountain in west Belfast and a further two acres close to the Knockagh Monument near Carrickfergus.
The Fire and Rescue Service revealed recently that officers had attended some 900 gorse fires since the start of April - many of them started deliberately.
Arsonists were thought by the Fire and Rescue Service to have been responsible for a blaze which spread across 15 acres of countryside near Dungiven, Co Derry, on Saturday.
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