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Firefighters tackle grass fires across Wales

BBC Scorched earth on Mynydd Graig GochBBC
The fire on Mynydd Graig Goch, above Garndolbenmaen, has affected a wide area

Firefighters have been tackling large grass fires following callouts to incidents across Wales.

On Sunday afternoon South Wales Fire and Rescue sent three crews each to two separate grass fires.

An emergency at Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, was raised at 13:30 GMT, and another in Moriston, Swansea, at 15:30.

On Saturday, crews were called to incidents in Gwynedd, Flintshire and Carmarthenshire.

North Wales Fire and Rescue were alerted to the blaze at Mynydd Graig Goch, above Garndolbenmaen, near Porthmadog, Gwynedd, on Saturday at 14:40 GMT, which has now been extinguished.

Crews also tackled other fires at Glanamman, Carmarthenshire, and Pont-rhyd-y-groes and Lampeter, both in Ceredigion.

Meanwhile, a large marshland blaze on the Wirral Peninsula could be seen by people on the other side of the Dee estuary in Flintshire on Saturday.