The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.

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It is not known at this stage how the fire started, but swailing - a controlled burning of overgrown heathland to clear the ground and encourage new growth - can with prior approval be carried out on the moor until the second week of April.

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There is a small fire burning among a tinderbox of surrounding sun-weary trees, presumably built by a ranger in the predawn cold.

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Missing altogether are the Happy Valley racecourse fire (1918), the Mid-Levels landslide disaster (1972) and the burning and sinking in the harbor of the Queen Elizabeth (1972).

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Also on Wednesday, crews from Bangor, Llanfairfechan, Conwy, Llanrwst and Pwllheli were tackling a gorse fire affecting around 3, 500 sq m of land at Carreg Fawr, Llanfairfechan - which was burning for a second day.

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Jolted by the mass deaths of rescuers in New York, firefighters won't be so quick to rush into burning high-rises and will broadly rethink how to protect themselves while trying to save others, fire officials say.

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