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That's it. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:00 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
On the hottest day of the year so far, Fire Services across Wales | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
are warning of the dangers of deliberately lit grassfires. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:23 | |
Last night and today South Wales Fire Rescue Service | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
crews have been tackling fires that have damaged tens of | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
square miles of land. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
Rhiannon Wilkins has spent the day with a fire-crew | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
in the Brecon Beacons. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
A grass fire in the heart of the Brecon Beacons | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
measuring ten kilometers. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
Firefighters Craig Hope and John Jenkins have been | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
overseeing how to tackle it from noon today. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:53 | |
The best thing to do now would be to get the helicopter here, get up | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
and have a look at the whole area and then make a plan. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
It's one of around 70 grass fires in the last few weeks | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service has had to deal with. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
I guess it's just the front we can see, so could it actually | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
potentially go a lot further back? | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
That's the actual back of the fire, if you look at the way | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
the wind is blowing. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
So there is a front to this fire, which is way over in the distance | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
and we cannot actually see it from here. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
Yesterday you say you were tackling one just over here. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
Yeah, just over on the ridge over there you can see. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
That was approximately 200 hectares of grass and vegetation and we put | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
that out yesterday evening just before it got dark and now we've got | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
another ignition as you can see on the other side. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
Because we are in the Brecon Beacons, which is a high area | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
in itself, so we can't get high enough, that's why | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
we need a helicopter. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
Could you ask the duty manager if I could have the helicopter | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
to come to a grid reference, please? | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
As well as a helicopter, crews were deployed to different | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
vantage points with concerns the blaze could spread to Pen y Fan, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
packed with hundreds of walkers on the hottest | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
day of the year so far. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:59 | |
The Fire Service are confident they have this blaze under control | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
but with many grass fire started deliberately, time spent | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
on the mountain could be time spent elsewhere. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:10 | |
Tributes have been paid to a 66-year-old woman | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
who was killed after being struck by a transit van on the M4 | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
near Cardiff yesterday. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
Patricia Joyce Connors' family have described her as a loving mum, | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
grandmother and great-grandmother. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:25 | |
South Wales Police have confirmed she was struck | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
as she tried to save her dog. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
More than 13,000 people have been caught speeding on the M4 around | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
Newport since a variable speed limit was introduced six months ago. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
An average of 84 motorists a day were caught breaking the limit | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
between Coldra and Tredegar Park. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:45 | |
A Welsh Government Spokesperson said it's encouraging that compliance | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
with the speed limits continues to improve. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:54 | |
Going for a haircut can be a relaxing experience, | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
but for a child with autism having a haircut can be | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
painful and stressful. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
Well, a barber from Britton Ferry, James Williams - otherwise | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
known as Jim the Trim - has developed a unique technique | 0:03:04 | 0:03:09 | |
where he will cut a child's hair lying on the floor, | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
sitting on window sills or even in the car. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
As part of an autism awareness event this weekend, | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
James and 11 other barbers will cut the hair of 60 children with autism. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
They like to keep themselves busy. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:27 | |
Your job within that is to keep them occupied | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
using something like an iPad, playing with toys. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:31 | |
Finding out what they relate to best and that's how I | 0:03:31 | 0:03:35 | |
have learned to give them the freedom and that's why it works. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
Some football scores for you now - and trouble for Swansea City | 0:03:38 | 0:03:45 | |
after losing 1-0 to West Ham this afternoon. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
The Swans are now in the bottom three of the table with only six | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
games left to secure their Premier League survival. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
Better news for Cardiff City, they fought back from behind to end | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
Brentford's winning-run in the Championship with a 2-1 win. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
Newport County are second from bottom of League two | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
after losing 1-0 in Exeter. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
And frustration for Wrexham losing away to Bromley, | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
the final score there 3-4. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
Rugby, and in the Pro-12, Newport Gwent Dragons lost | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
away to Zebre by 29-14. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
Disappointment also for the Ospreys with a last minute Leinster | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
drop-goal securing the Irish side a 20-18 victory. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
The Scarlets face Treviso later - kick off is at 7:35pm. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
Cricket, and not the start Glamorgan had hoped for taking a thumping | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
in their opening Division Two game. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
They're all out this evening for 187. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
Northants winning by an innings and 22 runs. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:39 | |
It reached 20.3 Celcius in Trawsgoed in Ceredigion earlier, | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
the hottest temperature in Wales so far this year so let's take | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
a look at the forecast. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:46 | |
Clear skies overnight, with the chance of mist, | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
fog and frost patches by dawn. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:52 | |
Tomorrow morning, sunny spells for most at first though patchy | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
cloud will spill in from the west during the afternoon. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
Highs around 17 Celsius. | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
We'll be back at 6:50pm tomorrow evening. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:01 | |
Until then, from all of us on the weekend team, | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
hwyl fawr, bye-bye. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 |