Crews Tackle Wildfire At Fort Augustus

Fire crews worked through the night to stop a gorse blaze from reaching homes in Fort Augustus.

Published 23rd Apr 2015

Fire crews worked through the night to stop a gorse blaze from reaching homes in Fort Augustus. Flames took hold of up to 400 hectares of land at Loch Unigan Hill at 7.45pm. It came within 50 metres of a property, but personnel managed to extinguish the fire early this morning.