Resolved and historic wildfire incidents
Resolved and historic wildfire incident reports.
This archive retains reviewed reports after an incident has closed or moved outside the current reporting window. Dates show when each record was last verified or updated; source coverage can be delayed or incomplete.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
FIRE IN OPEN - High Hatton, Shawbury
Fire involving approximately 100m square of woodland and cut straw. This has been extinguished by Fire Service Personnel with assistance from farm machinery.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Knapsacks , Thermal imaging camera - Tiffany Stables
One bonfire extinguished by Fire Service Personnel.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Buckets of water , Knapsacks - Field off Nobold Lane
Fire involving grass that has been extinguished by Fire Service Personnel.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Hosereel jet - Allotments, Sutton Hill
Small fire consisting of garden waste that has been extinguished by Fire Service Personnel.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Buckets of water - Sutton Hill, Telford
This incident was a bin on fire which was out on arrival of crews.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Buckets of water , Knapsacks - Hills Lane, Madely, Telford
Fire Service personnel extinguished two small fires in a wooded area involving quantities of rubbish using buckets of water & a knapsack sprayer.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Hosereel jet , Thermal imaging camera - Bridgnorth Golf Club, Stanley Lane, Bridgnorth
This incident was a fire involving approximately 20 meters of hedgerow and a bonfire measuring approximately 15 meters square, extinguished by crews using 1 hose reel jet and a thermal imaging camera to check for residual hot spots.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Hosereel jet , Thermal imaging camera - Fourth Avenue, Ketley Bank, Telford
This incident was a fire involving 1 domestic wheelie bin, accidentally caused by discarded hot ashes. Crews extinguished using 1 hose reel jet and a thermal imaging camera to check for residual hot spots.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN - Worfield, Bridgnorth
This incident was a false alarm good intent caused by dust from a tractor.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN - Lillieshall, Newport
This was a small fire, crews used 1 hosereel jet to extinguish the fire.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Hosereel jet - St Martins, Oswestry
This was hedgerows on fire, crews used hosereel jets to extinguish the fire.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Hosereel jet , Thermal imaging camera - Smallhill Road, Lawley Village, Telford
This incident involved approximately 10 x 8 meters of undergrowth on an embankment on fire, extinguished by crews using 1 hose reel jet and a thermal imaging camera to check for residual hot spots.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments High Pressure Jet - Field to the rear of Glebe Close, Cheswardine, Market Drayton
This incident was a fire involving 20 square meters of grass and undergrowth possibly caused by arcing electricity cables in the vicinity, extinguished using 1 high pressure jet.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Drag rakes , Hosereel jet - Dark Lane, Telford
Fire involving roughly 30m x 20m of woodland, grass and hedgerow.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Knapsacks - Bage Way, Shrewsbury
False alarm raised with good intent. One small camp fire responsibly undertaken with precautionary measures taken. One knapsack in use damping down adjacent area.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN - Eyton Road, Dawley
False alarm raised with good intent as a result of responsible burning of waste with suitable precautions taken.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Breathing Apparatus (BA) , Drag Rake , High Pressure Jet - Wappenshall, Telford
Fire involving controlled burn containing commercial waste. Extinguished using a breathing apparatus, drag rakes, and high pressure hose reel jet.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN - Wolverhampton Road, Shifnal
Reports of smoke in area, on investigations from crews this was found to be linked to another incident Shropshire Fire Service attended. Assistance also given from Staffordshire Fire and Rescue.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN Equipments Main jet - Tong Forge, Shifnal
Bonfire measuring approximately 10m x 5m extinguished using one main jet.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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FIRE IN OPEN - Cow Wood, Ketley, Telford
Large grass fire measuring approximately 100m x 100m.
Fire service: Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
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