To mark No Smoking Day Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service have issued a warning statement to the public regarding people who carelessly discard cigarettes.

The moor’s Wikipedia page even has a subsection dedicated to the strange events that have occurred there over the years: from the plane crash in 1949, which killed 24, to being the burial site of Moors Murders victims.

About 100 soldiers are tackling the Saddleworth Moor blaze, that is now being treated as arson.