Six separate Shropshire blazes see a busy night for firefighters
Firefighters were kept busy dealing with six separate minor fires stretching across the county.
Crews from Baschurch, Church Stretton, Oswestry and Shrewsbury were all called out to deal with small blazes yesterday evening.
There were also two car fires – in Havenhills, near Telford, and Eardington, near Bridgnorth – which both took just under half an hour to bring under control.
Firefighters were first alerted to a chimney fire in a detached farmhouse, in Weston Lullingfields, near Baschurch, and took just under an hour-and-a-half to put the flames out.
A crew from Church Stretton later attended a scene in Cwmdale following an alert from a member of the public at 5.45pm, although no fire was found.
Firefighters from Oswestry attended a fire at 6.30pm when four square metres of grass were set alight, which took 20 minutes to put out.
A crew from Shrewsbury was called out to a rubbish fire, in Ditherington, and used a knapsack to extinguish it at 6.45pm.
A car was alight on a road in Havenhills, in Brockton, near Telford, at 8pm and firefighters used a two breathing apparatus and one hose reel jet to put out the fire.
A second car fire occurred in Halfway House Lane, Eardington, near Bridgnorth, just after 8.30pm.
