Woodland fire in Scarborough and vehicle fire in Whitby among calls for firefighters
Fire crews from Scarborough, Whitby and Danby were among those who saw action over the weekend.
On Friday, November 6, a crew from Scarborough responded to a fire sighted in woods on Filey Road at 3.54pm. This was found to be a small unattended fire in the open and crews extinguished using backpack sprayers.
On Saturday, November 7, a crew from Whitby responded to a vehicle which was well alight on Abbey Lane at 8.50pm. Crews extinguished and dampened down using two hose reel jets and two breathing apparatus. The incident was left with the Police.
On Sunday, November 8, at 8.13pm, a crew from Danby responded to a vehicle fire which had resulted from a single vehicle road traffic collision in which a car had left the road and come to rest down an embankment at Blakey Ridge. The driver of the vehicle was out on arrival. Crews extinguished the vehicle and surrounding patch of moorland using a house reel jet. The incident was left in the hands of the Police.