Firefighters were called to a skip on fire in a Cornish town in the early hours of Sunday morning, August 16.
The skip in St Austell was well alight and the fire had spread to nearby scaffolding. A fire crew from the town used a hosereel jet and wore breathing apparatus as they put out the blaze.
Elsewhere in Cornwall, firefighters tackled a number of fires in the open over the weekend. They fought a blaze in the Mousehole area on Saturday afternoon, August 15.
Later on Saturday, crews from Truro and Tolvaddon used hosereel jets and beaters to extinguish a grass and gorse fire at Tregavethan, near Threemilestone, and firefighters from Perranporth, St Just and St Ives dealt with a gorse fire at Madron, using hosereel jets.
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St Austell Crew Tackles Skip Fire in Early Hours