Police have issued a stern warning after someone flouted Dovestone reservoir's strict barbecue ban.
Hundreds of visitors headed to the Saddleworth beauty spot today as Greater Manchester basked in an Easter weekend heatwave.
But despite numerous warning signs around the reservoir someone lit a barbecue, risking yet another devastating blaze on the 'tinder dry' moorland.
In a message on Facebook this afternoon GMP Saddleworth & Lees wrote: "Dovestone marshals have just extinguished a barbecue at Chew Track, Dove Stone.
"This one had been set in the floor risking igniting the tinder dry vegetation surrounding it.
"No matter how many times we tell people they still attempt to cook food over open flames in a critical fire danger area.
"The message is clear and simple
"No Barbecues at Dove Stone, No fires, No excuses!"
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There's already been several big moor fires in the region this spring.
On Thursday afternoon a huge fire broke out at Lyme Park.
Firefighters from Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Derbyshire were called to the National Trust site on the border of Stockport and Cheshire after the blaze engulfed around two square kilometres of moorland.
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In February firefighters worked through the night battling a 1.5km long blaze on moorland between Diggle in Oldham and Marsden in West Yorkshire.
And Saddleworth was hit by the worst wildfires in Greater Manchester's history when Saddleworth Moor around Tameside and Winter Hill near Bolton burned for more than three weeks last June.
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