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22
May
Firefighters respond to three overnight blazes in Ripon and Knaresborough
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service was busy last night as three separate fires broke out in the district.
The first occurred at around 6.16pm on Harrogate Road, in Littlethorpe.
A crew was called to reports of smoke and discovered household waste on fire.
The fire covered 10 metres by 10 metres and was extinguished with a hose jet, according to the service's incident report.
At 10.55pm, crews from Knaresborough and Harrogate responded to a summerhouse fire at the back of a house on St Margaret's Road in Knaresborough.
The blaze was out by the time firefighters arrived. Crews dampened down the area and removed a wood burner. One hose reel jet was used and a thermal imaging camera, to check for further hotspots.
Ripon and Harrogate crews were then called to a third blaze, on Doublegates Avenue in Ripon.
A storage area attached to a residential property had caught fire and spread to the garage. Crews extinguished the flames using a hose reel jet.
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