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By Nuala McCann
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image captionA firefighter pauses for a moment as she gets on with the battle to put out the blaze
It began with puffs of white smoke, but by Friday teatime the people who call the foothills of the Mourne Mountains home began to feel nervous.
As darkness fell, like thousands of others, Laura Devlin and her family stood at a bedroom window watching orange flames devour the night sky. My son who s five said: Mummy, it looks like a volcano.
Ms Devlin is a Mournes woman, born and bred. For people like her, the mountains are more than a pretty watercolour in a tourist shop.