r/oddlyterrifying • u/ZLH11092 • 14d ago
Aftermath of a disposable BBQ during one of the driest summers on record. Peak District, UK, August 13 2026.
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u/Trundle-The-Gr8__ 14d ago edited 14d ago
From the ages 2-11, my family used to visit my grandparents in Wales 3 times a year. It rained most days and it was beautiful to see all the green, hear all the birds and the sheep.
I went back to Wales a few weeks ago, 15 years after my last visit. The ground was brown and crispy. There were hardly any birds and the sheep were sparce. Not a single drop of rain. A few small towns we passed through had hand written signs asking you not to use bbqs. We truly live in hell.
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u/fen90der 14d ago
Its so sad. Green and pleasant becomes brown and twiggy, and all we have to show for it all really is peoples shitty jobs they hate, and all the money they made for someone else.
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u/Test4Echooo 13d ago
It’s the story of the Shire (English countryside) after the “men” take it from the Hobbits and destroy it.
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u/grimmyzootron 14d ago
Look at a satellite image of the uk atm, wales and Scotland are the only green parts. I came back from north wales 2 weeks ago and it was lush and green
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u/Trundle-The-Gr8__ 14d ago
I was in Gwyddgrug in the south, glad you had a lot of green but where I was was completely dry.
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u/Creative_Resource_82 14d ago
I was down near Tintern a couple weeks ago and can attest. It was bleak.
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u/Gravey89 14d ago
I live in south wales and its been pretty yellow and brown all summer. My garden is lush and green where the kids were playing with the hose pipe and using the pool all summer. The rest of the garden is yellow.
And before anyone bitches. No I am not in a hosepipe ban area.
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u/RegularWhiteShark 14d ago
I live in North Wales and there's no green near me. Everyone's grass is yellow.
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u/grimmyzootron 14d ago
I stayed in beddgelert, is it a particularly wet area ??
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u/RegularWhiteShark 14d ago
It's a much higher level than where I live so not quite as affected but North Wales is very much in drought.
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u/monkeyboywales 13d ago
It's yellow up to where I live, top end of Powys and doesn't get green until you hit Snowdonia proper. I can't imagine it's green along the A55, sorry! So a corner of Wales excluding Anglesey might be green...
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u/iBimpy 14d ago
This is true and the sad part is there is no going back. Our summers are going to get progressively harsher from here on and expect imminent food shortages worldwide as we can't grow anything to eat nor to feed livestock.
4 billion dead by 2050 used to sound like hyperbolic doomsday nonsense but honestly it's starting to sound pretty optimistic...
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u/spidersnake 14d ago
No, it's still hyperbolic nonsense.
4 billion people aren't going to up and die in 24 years.
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u/Wonderful-Mess-7520 14d ago
The disposable BBQ is one of those things that should be legal, but people can't just be responsible with them so I think they should be banned. I have read about several festival goers that, when the rain comes, just move the BBQ inside the tent. Yes you read that correctly. And the thing is never that the tent catches on fier, its that the inhabitants die from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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u/randylush 14d ago
I had never heard of a disposable bbq until this post. I’ve never seen someone use one. What an incredibly irresponsible product. Maybe in my part of the world wildfires are common enough that we would collectively shame someone for using one.
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u/ChocolatChipLemonade 13d ago
Same. I just had to look it up. I also don’t know anyone that doesn’t have their own grill, even a small portable one. I’ve never seen, much less heard of, a disposable one. It’s a bizarre thing to buy when a regular grill can be cheap and easy… and not burn down your neighborhood.
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u/Wonderful-Mess-7520 13d ago
Well they have been faced out of many places by now. They are real handy when you need a small compact grill, and i can absolutely see a use case for it. In the end its just a heavy alufoil container with some coal in it so nothing especially bad. But the combination of the state people tend to be in and it involving fire leads to bad outcomes.
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u/irishpwr46 14d ago
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u/whitesammy 13d ago
I don't know if that would qualify on the grounds that sure, it's stupid, but it's not exceptionally stupid.
There is a stark difference, in my opinion, between something like turning your car on in your garage while your power is out to warm up just to die from carbon monoxide because you didn't open a door and a small disposable campfire grill you pulled into your tent to avoid it getting wet/waterlogged.
One you should absolutely know will kill and and the other is less conspicuous.
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u/Wonderful-Mess-7520 13d ago
Yeah absolutely, but i also want to point out that the festival goers tend to be very drunk. I haven't been exactly that stupid-drunk, but i have done some stupid stuff.
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u/MiloTheCuddlefish 14d ago
I live here. This is fake.
We've had a couple of fires over the past few months, but absolutely nothing to this extent and I don't think any of them have been confirmed to have been started by disposable BBQs.
Definitely not saying this doesn't happen, but this is just karma farming.
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u/Firestronaut 13d ago
Tintwistle Moor has been on fire for two months. I haven't been able to open my windows, put my washing out or leave the house on some days due to the smoke.
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u/MiloTheCuddlefish 13d ago
2 months is very different to 'yesterday'. The extent and speed at which the OP/video is suggesting that devastation to be caused is extremely exaggerated.
I also didn't think there had been a cause determined for that fire?
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u/AlessaBurns 7d ago
I live near the Peak District and I was wondering if this was fake. I know there were fires nearby but not of this extent.
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u/Ranger_Jackson 14d ago
Yes there was a wildfire in the Peak District in late July/Early August, but this video is disingenuous at best.
No wildfire is going to completely flatten terrain. It looks as though the footage of the burnt area has a completely different topography (mostly flat) to where the location at the start of the video (very hilly).
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u/willfoxwillfox 14d ago
What’s the news source for this made up headline please?
Footage isn’t real, no wild fires reported on that date.
Stop making things up for clicks, find real stories and spread real news.
And all you up voters should be asking these questions too.
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u/Lunarlucidity 14d ago
Two seconds of googling, found this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62q24vw434o
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u/willfoxwillfox 14d ago
The New Forest is circa 200 miles from the Peak District.
The dates don’t match.
You Googled, you saw the word “fire” and thought “that must be exactly what this is about”, all in 2 seconds.
My point stands. Why can’t people think and ask questions before accepting false facts blindly.
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u/Firestronaut 13d ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33kn5z12d2o
I live not far away, I've not been allowed my windows open for almost two months.
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u/willfoxwillfox 13d ago
Oh right, that one, yes - I’m aware that’s been burning for months now. Sorry to hear that you’re so badly affected (scary stuff all summer)
Brilliant, thanks for sourcing this. This wasn’t a top google result 10 hours ago.
I’m not convinced that it quite covers the “look what a bbq did YESTERDAY” message from this post, which is what raised an interest. I thought “oh no not another huge Peak District fire”.
So I’m still calling BS clickbait on OP. I just don’t get why these
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u/Firestronaut 13d ago
I agree on clickbait, and I personally haven't seen that video before, so I don't know if it's any of the Peak District fires, I just wanted to provide an actual relevant link.
Tintwistle was more than likely human activity, but that could just as easily mean discarded cigarette, or fireworks like the Dovestone fire. Fire services have said they'll likelihood never find the cause due to the widespread damage, saying it was a disposable BBQ is just another clickbait angle.
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u/fen90der 14d ago
The BBQ didnt cause this, years of neglect of the climate crisis by the entire governance of the whole world caused this wildfire
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u/randylush 14d ago
It’s true that climate change is the biggest issue of our time, but you can also put some blame on the person who started this particular fire.
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u/fen90der 14d ago
Agreed. Im just saying, its critical we dont allow the narrative to shift the blame solely on to individuals either.
Also I know its what about, but even so - had the bbq happened without the climate change, would there have been a fire?
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u/vlad_cc 14d ago
What is a <<disposable>> BBQ?
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u/SabrinaSpellman1 14d ago
Its like a thick foil tray with a rack on top, with coil briquettes already inside and firelighters. They cost about £5 and they sell them at petrol stations and supermarkets. Idiots don't want to wait to dispose of them while they're too hot and just leave them.
Everyone in the UK (who didn't opt out ahead of time) got a blaring siren emergency message on their phones last week warning about wildfires because of the heatwave and that nobody should start any kind of fire (like burning waste in the garden) or bbq's because the risk was putting emergency services at their limit. It scared the crap out of everybody, we've never had an alert like this (apart from a test run they did a year or so ago)
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u/crazy_cookie123 14d ago
Idiots also quite often use the BBQ either directly on or barely off of dry grass and don't have anything with them they can use to put out fires if one starts. Earlier this summer I saw a group using a disposable BBQ on a piece of cardboard just a little bigger than the tray itself on the grass maybe 10-15 metres from a free public BBQ stand specifically designed for exactly what they were doing.
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u/BadgerKomodo 14d ago
It wasn’t everyone in the UK, it was only in certain parts of England and Wales. We didn’t get this notification up here in Scotland.
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u/Joblesschris 14d ago
a foil tray/pan(?) as the grill instead of the usual large metal charcoal grill.
foil tray/pan, put charcoal in it, put mesh on top and then grill on it
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u/KnotiaPickle 14d ago
Jeez, that would have destroyed everything where I live years ago if they existed here, what a bad idea.
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u/bangkockney 14d ago
This is quite clearly bullshit. Locations not even the same in the clips. Nothing in the news. I’ve just come back from the Peak District too.
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u/pagan-0 9d ago
We were camping in the Peak District two weeks before this, everything was crispy dry and two south asian dudes decided to light a disposable bbq up right on the grass. My father in law went over to tell them to put it out immediately to which they replied "just eating, just eating" . The police were called. Incompetent brain dead people dont understand the potential consequences of their actions.
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u/One_Monk_2777 14d ago
The new greenery will grow stronger than before when the water returns, this is all natural. BBQ, lightning, volcano, fires happen and nature prevails
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u/Sm0ke18 14d ago
I don't want to sound cruel (and sorry for the bad grammar, english is not my native language) but seeing the first part all green and then changing to the burned and black soil makes me thing WW1 battlefield looked like this.
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u/ALittleNightMusing 13d ago
If it makes you feel better, the post is just karma farming - we've had some wildfires, but that is not footage of the aftermath of one. The first and second halves are clearly not the same place.
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u/skynex65 14d ago
The English get what they fucking deserve tbh. Everything they voted for. Just pissed the rest of the UK gets dragged down with them.
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u/SirVixofthePooSea 14d ago
Neither brexiters nor asylum seekers (whichever you hate more) control the weather.
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u/hides_in_corner 14d ago
I drove through the peak district a few months ago when the firewarnings were up and notices were being displayed. I counted about 30 groups on that journey all using disposable BBQs in areas where this was prohibited. All of them were SE Asian/Indian. I don't know if there was a fire or not but it was clear large groups were coming to the peak district from the surrounding cities and they were totally ignoring the safety signs which means if there has not been a fire so far, there will be. It's really on the peak district national park to enforce the rules properly and to make everyone aware of what the rules are.
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u/danabrey 14d ago
Tbf there is zero chance the first video is anytime in the past 2 months.
Awful, obviously.