Talk:Operation Lucky Alphonse/@comment-91.84.90.213-20150519141636

This was the only forest fire I ever seen, and believe me, I never want to see another , I was part of C Coy 1st Battalion the Highland Light infantry , we wher sent over to Troodos from our base at Kantara in the Kyrenia mountains, to help in trying to put out the fire , I was working with a section beating  and trying to make a break gap, after a while we got a call on the 88 set , to get back up to the road, we where going for a break down the road to have tea and sndwiches , as we got to the road the sgt. major , collard me and told me to get back down the hill and tell the lads who had just releaved us,  to get  back up to the road as the fire was starting to encircle them and they couldnt get in touch with the lad with the 88 set as it was either switched off or wasnt working, so I ran down the hill and told the guys they had to get out,  we all got back up to the road safe and sound, I was then told to get on a lorry with my own section and wewent down the road for our break, we where just having our tea, when a land rover came down the road the NCO in it shouting get to hell out of it, and I swear , the fire was comming down the road as fast as the vehicle , again we had to jump on the lorry and get further down the road, what seems to have happened was, they thought theroad would act as a break gap, but unfortunately the wind took the fire across the road ,  it was a truely terrifying experiance , B. Sweeny Ex  H.L.I