I've added some photos to my web site of yesterday's major wildfire on
Dartmoor - http://maninthebackcountry.weebly.co...pril-2011.html

Thankfully the fire was halted by fire beaters and helicopter water
drops about 0.5mile from my tent!

The speed of progression of the front edge was alarming. I suspect you
would have struggled to have outrun it. Without intervention I suspect
this huge fire would have made it as far as Postbridge.

A short synopsis is available from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-13182629

Man in the Back Country