N.Ireland
This year a ‘Yellow’ or moderate wildfire risk will be deemed to exist across all areas that contain dead grasses, gorse and heather.
Firefighters came to the rescue on a farm in Co. Fermanagh after two calves had to be saved from a slurry pit this week.
Approximately 450 pigs have died as result of a fire that broke out on a farm in Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone on Sunday, November 9, 2025.
The NIFRS has responded to a road traffic collision involving an overturned lorry and a number of cattle in Northern Ireland.
The public are being urged to act responsibly when enjoying the countryside in Northern Ireland...
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) has confirmed that firefighters are continuing to deal with wildfires.
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) has confirmed that over 50 firefighters are now battling a fire on the Mourne Mountains.
Minister Muir has urged landowners to refrain from any prescribed burning in the remaining open season window to help firefighters
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) has been called out to 146 gorse fires since Thursday (April 3).
A cow stuck in mud near Kircubbin, Co. Down has been saved after a two hour operation involving firefighters, rescue teams, and farmers
A fire in a Co. Tyrone farm resulted in the death of a number of pigs, despite the best efforts of...
Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) were called to the scene of a field flooding in Co. Down to save around 30 sheep
On what was supposed to be his retirement party, a firefighter was called to assist in the rescue of 28 calves from a slurry pit in Co. Armagh.
The Irish Air Corps is supporting the NIFRS with its operational response to an extensive gorse fire in Glenariff, Co. Antrim.
The UFU has said it is supporting calls from other agencies and farming organisations relating to wildfire prevention ahead of summer.
A calf in Co. Antrim has been reunited with its mother following a rescue mission by NIFRS on July 3 to remove it from an outside slurry pit.
Firefighters are investigating the cause of a blaze that killed 16,000 birds on a poultry farm in...
Calls have been made for an all-island strategy to tackle gorse fires as firefighters tackle an uncontrolled wildfire spreading across the Mournes.
Rural Life
Five crews of firefighters spent a gruelling three and a half hours trying to free a stuck bullock from a slurry tank in Derry, this week.
Around 6,000 chickens have been killed in an overnight fire at a farm on the Crosscavanagh Road in Dungannon on Sunday night.
Approximately 50 fire brigade personnel attended a large blaze which broke out in a number of farm sheds last night, in Co. Antrim.
Emergency services have warned farmers to take care when mixing slurry after a man in his 70s was rescued in Co. Fermanagh today, June 6.
Firefighters in Northern Ireland freed a total of 40 cattle from an overturned lorry in Co. Fermanagh this morning.
