Photographs: Peak District Moorland GroupThe gamekeepers who helped stop last month’s Peak District wildfire have spoken about what it took to hold the flames – and what it cost them. How the Peak District fire smouldered in the peat for three weeksYet for the keepers, the story began almost three weeks earlier. “Burning peat with a predicted forecast of more heatwaves and strong winds is only going one way,” said Richard Bailey, coordinator of the Peak District Moorland Group and a gamekeeper for 33 years. The Peak District is ringed by Manchester, Sheffield and Huddersfield, and on any dry weekend its moors fill with visitors, most are respectful, many are not. Why Peak District keepers feel unheard by policymakersThe keepers have long campaigned for more help in preventing these fires, and feel unheard.