The crews fighting against a forest fire in English face an additional risk of hidden bombs of the Second World War exploding

North Yorkshire, England – The work already at risk of firefighters fighting against a forest fire in the North York Moors National National Park was made all the more dangerous by the bombs and the reservoir shells of the era of the First World War under dense and dry vegetation. A local fire manager said on Wednesday that there had been nearly 20 explosions while the fire burns through the brush to explode the hidden weapons.

“While peat continues to burn, it finds the ammunition of the Second World War and therefore exploding, and we have now experienced more than 18 explosions of ammunition in key areas,” said county firefighters, Jonathan Dyson, according to CBS News partner, the BBC News network.

Langdale Moor’s fire, which started on August 11, charred around 10 square miles in the picturesque coastal region of North Yorkshire. The emergency firefighters teams attack the fire, helped by local farmers and guards who have done the action with reservoirs and water tractors, earth brushes and aid to cut fires through the Landes, which is largely covered with shrubs and dense herbs.

Dyson said that part of the active shooting area was a tanking field in the 1940s, explaining why so many weapons were still hiding under the first layers of the rugged landscape. There is still a British military site, the Raf Fylingdales radar station in the immediate area.

The British Defense Ministry in London said that an explosive ammunition elimination team had found “various articles of unploded ammunition in the Second World War”, declaring them to be “inert practice projectiles”.

Dyson said that the country’s fire and rescue service had requested help from other agencies in the country, and that the teams had adopted a “very defensive fire -fighting strategy” to protect members given the presence of unplodced bombs.

The ladder of forest fires has been atypical for northern England – a region often associated with strong precipitation even in the United Kingdom, but this year has seen an incredibly hot and dry spring at the beginning of summer, leaving the Landes (a British word for non -cultivated hills). The United Kingdom is on the right track to see 2025 drop while the hottest year ever recorded.

The North York Moors Park covers more than 550 square miles of rolling hills for the Yorkshire coast. It is dotted with villages and seaside towns which are popular summer holiday destinations, including the ancient Fishermen’s town in Whitby, considered as the inspiration for the emblematic tale of “Dracula” of the author of the Victorian era.

With many small towns, Whitby was struck by road closings due to the fire that held certain tourists from a distance. Several campsites and other companies in the region have been forced to evacuate and close.

Landes are also used as pasture lands for herds of sheep, and see so many ground burns – after weeks with little rain to grow fresh grass, he had already tightened many farmers before winter months – was painful for local farmers.

“These are the means of subsistence of people,” said Darren Coates, a worker, at the BBC. “To see the Landes and the agricultural land burned to a crisp, it’s just devastating.”

Farms in the region and the stables not affected by the fire published messages on social networks for weeks, offering shelters temporarily horses and other animals moved by fire.

Wednesday finally brought a desperately necessary rain to the region, helping firefighters and farmers take a certain control over the fire, but the firefighters warned residents on Thursday that many road closings and trails remained in place, and the fire was still active.

“They work hard to contain the fire by fighting against fires, hotspotting and adding breaks,” said the service. “A helicopter is used again today. We continue to ask people to avoid the area and not to travel there to take photos and images of drones. This is an operational incident in progress and we want to make sure that our teams, our partners and the public remain safe.”

He said the cause of the fire had not been established.

There was no report of injuries or serious structural damage to the forest fire – or the bombs of the former Second World War that explodes below.