Be fire aware
Fires are easily started by people lighting barbeques, campfires and cigarettes, and even by glass bottles. Visitors enjoying the countryside and moorlands may not realise that they have started a fire. Although they put their fire out, it may have caught the underground layers of peat soil alight. It can continue to burn, unseen, underground for days or weeks before re-emerging to ignite the surface. Dry surface vegetation can catch light from a cigarette or the heat generated by sunshine on a bottle and then spread quickly.
Many fires sadly start due to carelessness or a lack of awareness. We therefore urge people to be in the know before they go and remember that BBQs, campfires and any other cooking equipment are not allowed in the Peak District National Park and all cigarettes and other smoking materials must be extinguished and disposed of properly and considerately.