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Jun 2021
Last Updated: 16/06/2021
Dramatic pictures show firefighters tackling Follifoot blaze
A skip caught fire and the flames spread to nearby buildings. Six crews of firefighters attended the blaze yesterday afternoon.
These dramatic pictures show six crews from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue battling a blaze near Follifoot yesterday.
Firefighters were called to the former property of a well-known fundraiser for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, Ken Horner, on Haggs Road at 2.15pm.
When the crews arrived they found a skip and a large outbuilding on fire.
Firefighters from stations in Harrogate, Knaresborough, Wetherby, Ripon, Tadcaster and Acomb attended.
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Russell Jenkinson, crew manager at Knaresborough Fire Station, told the Stray Ferret:
"We are still carrying out investigations but we believe it started with some controlled burning in some old oil drums.
"It was confined and safe but obviously something happened to cause the fire to spread, that it was we are still trying to determine."
A spokesperson for North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said yesterday:
"Crews from Harrogate, Knaresborough Ripon, Acomb, Wetherby, Moortown and the water bowser from Tadcaster responded to a report of an outbuilding on fire, which had spread to a rubbish pile and a garden shed.
"Fire involving an out building and a large pile of rubbish is now extinguished. Will be revisited this evening by Harrogate crews."
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