A major incident has been declared after 100 Fire fighting Was called out to provoke a huge explosion Dorset Heathland.
The wildfire, which inspired 20 houses to evacuate, was measured at a distance of about 1,000 meters 800 meters on Saturday evening, incorporating the explosion with the fire staff through the night and on Sunday morning.
The fire spread rapidly due to the flames with flames in the Holt Heath near Wimbourne. All the people who run away from their homes on Saturday evening are now back, but the residents have been advised to keep their doors and windows closed, which will be closed due to a dense smoke bill from the site.
On Sunday morning, the fire service said that continuous progress was made through the night to suppress the spread of fire – about 69 hectares of land affected.
Another Heath Fire, which affected 21 hectares of land Newton Heath Near Swanaj, still burning. Firefighting has been dealing with that blaze since last Sunday.
Assistant Chief Fire Officer Darren Langdown said on Saturday: “We have announced a major event due to the size of the fire in Holt Heath, and the impact of this and Newton Heath on our overall availability of resources.
“We are very grateful to our neighboring services that they are giving us, and I can only praise all our employees who are working so hard in extremely difficult conditions to bring these fire under control.”
He said: “I will ask the public to stay away from the affected areas and ask us to help us; the fire in the Holt Heath is spreading rapidly, and anyone is trying to see what is going on, we can be cut very easily. We will also ask photographers not to fly drones near the fire, because we are helping us using drones which are using drones provided by Vesax Rescue which we are using fireflies. Are.”
