{"id":48038,"date":"2023-06-06T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=48038"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:06:22","slug":"trinity-school-kids-miss-out-on-beautiful-heathland-following-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2023\/06\/trinity-school-kids-miss-out-on-beautiful-heathland-following-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity school kids miss out on beautiful heathland following fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School children from Trinity First on an educational visit to Stephens Castle missed out on the amazing healthland and wildlife following the recent wildfires, a heathland warden has said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dorset Council mitigation warden Amy Gallagher from The Urban Heaths Partnership said in a video posted online that they&#8217;ve had to share the absolute devastation of the area completely destroyed by wildlife rather than the excellent healthland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really sad we couldn&#8217;t show the children the heath in its prime instead they&#8217;ve been confronted with this (an image of burnt heathland),&#8221; Amy added. <\/p>\n<p>A large fire broke out at Stephens Castle on Wednesday which devastated 4.7 hectares of heathland and <a href=\"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2023\/06\/verwood-fire-causes-4-7-hectares-of-rare-lowland-heath-devastation\/\">killed<\/a> a number of creatures during the fire control.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Warden Amy was out with the education team yesterday at Stephens Castle, Verwood, the site of the heath fire last week.<br \/>They were delivering some heathland education for Trinity First School. This is what the school children saw\ud83d\ude14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nGEEcrTagT\">pic.twitter.com\/nGEEcrTagT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dorset Heaths (@DorsetHeaths) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DorsetHeaths\/status\/1666023560278573056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udea8Verwood Forest\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd25 <\/p>\n<p>At approximately 16:00 yesterday a large fire broke out at Verwood Forest. <\/p>\n<p>At 4:40pm our Unimog, along multiple fire engines was requested to attend.  The uniMog crew stayed until very late. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/verwood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#verwood<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dwfrs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dwfrs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#fire<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/firefighter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#firefighter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wildfire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wildfire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/forestfire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#forestfire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0xKRTClE7P\">pic.twitter.com\/0xKRTClE7P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wareham Fire Station (@DWFRSWareham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DWFRSWareham\/status\/1664247442978512898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School children from Trinity First on an educational visit to Stephens Castle missed out on the amazing healthland and wildlife following the recent wildfires, a heathland warden has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-48038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-dorset-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48042,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48038\/revisions\/48042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}