Meetup at Barr Beacon NORTH car park., Walsall, West Midlands at 10:00 on Sunday, 2nd August 2026

Have you flown over there Russ, what’s on fire? :flushed_face:

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The grass the other side of the beacon from us. He’s flying near there now and got footage

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make yourself known to the fire services incident commander on the phone or on site saves them a job :+1:Plus you wont get told off unless any flights have not been logged :laughing:
giphy

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Zoomed in with Mavic 3 full zoom

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Fire crew batting the fire to stop the spread

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It all happens after I leave. Binay doing 93mph last week, someone arsoning the Beacon today.

I guess it’s just living up to the name though?

I enjoyed today, first time flying all of my drones and first time with goggles and the mini 4 pro.

Thanks for organising again.

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The fire marshals know we’re here and have told us they’ll contact if they need us

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Wow I hope they get it under control, when I saw the smoke I didn’t realise it was that close to us :open_mouth:

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Same, it died down a bit, then went up and took off

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Sorry I had to leave early guys, the back was way too painful to stand about. Handfull of pain killers and 3 hours in bed cures everything! Back to normal now, next pain killers due about 8 o’clock, can’t wait :grinning_face:

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Thank you for being there all the same, doesn’t matter the time xx

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All died down, then about within half an hour the tree went up

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Police cordoned the beacon off and asked everyone up there to leave as a smoke precaution, we were already about to leave

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The whole grass area. The fire crew appears to get it under control but the odd tree started burning again. Called control and gave them my number in case we had to come down. Was told ok but would call if we had to come down or if needed. Called a few times with areas that had re started so they appreciated the updates. In the distance we could see two more fires and my sister told me of a fire near hers. We were packing up to come home and just sat in car to pull away. Police came up asking if any other entrances they need to check and they were asking all to leave the area due to smoke

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Just a few i took today

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Some photos I managed to capture of the fire that took place today at Barr Beacon

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Once again a great meet, thanks to everyone who came. Glad @Steviegeek got a fly this week. We stayed back a while chatting.

Thanks to all who support us.

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Sounds like an event full day for you lot at the Beacon meet, glad everyone got away and home safe!

Sorry I missed this one, I’ll “Have to do better” for the next one…

Some nice pics too

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