00:00So we're with Jade at the Abel's Heart manager here and Jade, it's a former pub, now it's a venue for weddings and events now, we do between 80 and 100 a year, so we're busy up here.
00:12You've got cracking views up here, haven't you?
00:14Yeah, very lucky.
00:15And so you've also attached to the business as a glamping business with alpacas and just tell us about, you had to kind of go into action man pose when you heard about this fire.
00:26Yeah, yeah, tried to, we were advised to move the livestock, obviously the smoke was slowing over our side, so we managed to move the alpacas safely, just tried to keep in touch with the officers that were here on site really, of what they were advising to do at the time.
00:44They did say at a couple of points there was risk of it travelling over to the other side, which obviously then would have impacted us with our field being opposite the field.
00:52Yeah, you said it's gorse over there and that just would have gone straight up, so you've got your glamping huts and everything, you had to move the alpacas?
01:01Yes, yeah, we had to move the alpacas, they were loaded in the trailer and moved further down the hill.
01:06Are they back home now?
01:07They're back home now, they're safe and I've been to check them this morning, they're okay.
01:10And you said we need to give a shout out to the farmers that helped, just fill us in on what they pulled out of the bag.
01:16Yeah, so we obviously called the local farmers, I think there was a bit of a struggle at one point with getting enough water with the wind taking, spreading the fire quicker than they could extinguish it.
01:24So we had six or seven of the local farmers that were really great and came up with tractors and tankers, they were here within an hour and they did two or three loads.
01:32They were going until half twelve, one o'clock this morning.
01:35Farming community, awesome aren't they?
01:37Not really without them.
01:37Yeah, they're awesome, you know what I mean, when needs be they were pulled together.
01:42Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
01:44Cool, well we're glad that everyone's safe and business-wise the alpacas are safe as well.
01:50All good.
01:51Cheers Jade, thank you.
01:53So what's your name sir?
01:54Richard, Morris.
01:55Richard, your house is just down the bottom there isn't it?
01:59It is indeed, yeah.
02:00So you're here with your salt ether dog and counting your blessings really, you were getting quite concerned.
02:06When the hedge went up, yeah, that was concerning.
02:09But then the fire crews were around and we felt safe then, that was the problem.
02:13We knew we were in good hands, didn't we dog?
02:14Amazing work they do isn't it, in the kit they do, on the hill, with the heat.
02:19Yeah, I felt sorry for them, I really did, but hey-ho, they do a grand job don't they?
02:24Is it unusual to get fires up here?
02:26We had one a few months ago on the other side of the callow.
02:29Yeah.
02:29You know, this is kind of weather, it's not rained for ages properly, the bracken gets really, really dry, and the grass gets dry, and the wind was up last night as well, so that couldn't have helped at all.
02:40I think it's almost like a perfect storm really, if somebody sets a fire.
02:43So you've just said thanks to the firefighters, you know, for their hard work.
02:49Yeah, of course, yeah.
02:50I've got a lot of admiration for them, I don't know how they do it, but I really don't.
02:53Well, I'm glad your property remains safe, sir.
