FIREFIGHTERS are fighting a large blaze in Lancashire that covered miles of grassland tonight. Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that they had deployed a drone to assist in tackling the …
Terrifying pictures of the fire, near Bacup, shared on social media showed the fields alight and witnesses claimed they heard a “big bang” just before the inferno erupted around 10.30pm.Eyewitness Lyndsay Dawson tweeted: "Bloody hell, that's the worst I've ever seen the hills on fire.
At the time, station manager Adam Greenwood said: "It was one of the highest flame fronts we have seen with flames of up to two metres high and it was moving fast across the moorland." Specialist wildfire units raced to the scene to tackle the blaze - which some witnesses said was so intense they could feel the heat through their cars' windscreens as they drove past.
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