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York fire crew attended reports of a fire in the open near tress. Crew used a bucket of water to extinguish a small fire thought to have been lit deliberately.

Time: 1822 Location: Common Lane, Hambleton, Selby

A fire crew attended reports of a bale on fire in a filed off Common Lane. The crew used a hose reel jet and small tools to extinguish the fire thought to have been set deliberately in a stubble field.

Time: 1832 Location: Water End, York

Crews from across York district and Selby were mobilsiing to reports of an incident near the river Ouse. upon arrival we found this to be a false alarm and no persons were injured.

Time: 1924 Location: Brackenley Lane, Embsay

2 fire crews from Skipton were mobilised after Fire Control received a report of a house on fire. Crew attended an address and found this to be a controlled burn mistaken for a house fire. advice was given to the occupant and the fire was left in their care.

Time: 1936 Location: Seamer village, Stokesley

Fire Control mobilised our Nothallerton crew and our Cleveland colleagues from Coulby Newham to assist in a fire to 2 stubble fields that again were thought to have been lit deliberately. Fire crews fought using 2 hose reel jets and beaters to extinguish a fire measuring 100m2 over 2 fields.

Time: 2011 Location: Hollins Lane, Hampsthwaite

A crew from Harrogate attended reports of a fire in the open. This was a fire in a field measuring 5m x 5m which is thought to have been controlled burning that was getting out of control. crew gave advice to owner and extinguished the fire using 1 hose reel.

Time: 2039 Location: off Dean road, Scarborough

A crew from Scarborough were mobilised after a call was received to reports of a derelict property having excessive heat coming from it. After a thorough external inspection using the thermal imaging camera it was concluded that the heat was simply excess coming from brickwork after the days sunshine.

Tadcaster crew attended reports of a car fire affecting an Audi Q8. fire was confined to the engine compartment and was out upon our arrival. The crew inspected with a thermal imaging camera and left the vehicle with owner awaiting recovery. The fire was thought to have been caused by an oil leak.

Fire Control received numerous calls to reports of a stack of bales on fire in a field. Due to the number of calls received 2 fire appliances were mobilised, 1 from Huntington and 1 from Easingwold. Upon arrival this was found to be 2 separate stack on fire. One consisting of approx 300-400 bales and a second sack about 1/2 a mile away containing approx 500 bales. The fire crews are still on scene and the farmer assisted in creating a fire break with fire machinery to prevent the fires from spreading. The cause of both fires are thought to be deliberate after witnesses saw a number of persons in a car set the fires.

Time: 2216 Location: Wensley Road, Leyburn

Fire Control received a report to an automatic fire alarm activation at a premises. Upon arrival, the Leyburn fire crew found that this was due to a forklift truck which had recently broken down. The recovery engineer arrived to recover the vehicle and upon starting it the head gasket blew causing an oil spill on the road and smoke to percolate into the property activating the fire alarm.

Time: 2229 Location: Charlton Avenue, Knaresborough

Crews from Knaresborough responded to an automatic fire alarm sounding at a residential premises. This resulted in a false alarm caused by insects in a detector head.

Time: 01:37 Location: Kingfisher Drive, Catterick Garrison

Crews from Colburn responded to an automatic fire alarm sounding at a residential premises. This resulted in a false alarm.

Time: 0404 Location: Thanet Road, York

Crews from Acomb responded to reports of commercial bins on fire in a car park. 1 plastic bin was completely destroyed and 2 metal commercial bins involved also. The fire was extinguished using one hose reel jet. The cause is believed deliberate.

Time: 0508 Location: Resolution Way, Whitby

Crews from Whitby, Lythe, Danby and Scarborough responded to reports of a house fire. All persons were confirmed out of the property and crews are currently using two main jets, two hose reel jets, four breathing apparatus and an aerial ladder platform to extinguish the fire. This incident is ongoing and the cause is unconfirmed at this time.

Crews from York responded to an automatic fire alarm sounding at a residential premises. This resulted in a false alarm caused by insects.

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