Firefighters took more than an hour to put out the flames of a grass fire which started in a field in Luqa and spread to a chicken farm called Tal-Nuna in nearby Imgieret Road yesterday. There were no reports of harmed chickens. Nearly 400 grass fires were reported to the Civil Protection Department between May and June.

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