Langdale Moor: Efforts to contain three-week blaze - ALL CREDIT: NYMMO - North York Moors Moorland Organisation - video Dailymotion

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North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said it had nine fire appliances at the scene, as well as more specialist vehicles and the assistance of partner agencies.  The major fire on the dried out North York Moors started earlier this month.  ALL CREDIT: NYMMO - North York Moors Moorland Organisation

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00:00Here we are at the A171 Scarborough-Whitby Road.

00:12The plan up here was going to try a back burn off a controlled burn.

00:17Basically the fire beat everybody to it.

00:21It's moving a lot faster than everyone expected.

00:24Thankfully it's managed to go out on the roads.

00:27A lot of farmers put some cuts in there on the roadside.

00:32It's helped a lot of tankers, flurry tankers.

00:35Massive effort from local farmers.

00:37As you can see there the fire crews and everyone concerned couldn't work in the smoke.

00:42There was a tractor that nearly went off the road.

00:46So everyone's just got to be careful.

00:49Fire crews are just going through now.

00:51It hasn't breached the road thankfully.

00:55So yeah.

00:57Let's see that's looking back down towards Whitby.

01:00All the smoke.

01:01Robbenham's bay in that direction.

01:04Yeah still an enormous fire but thankfully hasn't breached the road.

01:08We've got a lot of side fire.

01:10A lot of people still tackling this.

01:12Not an easy job.

01:14It's a huge fire now.

01:16What's that?

01:17What's that?

01:18Yeah.

01:19Cut fürs model to multiply by it?

01:20What's that about date?

01:21How are you looking back at the rain?

01:22That's hot probably.

01:23But this is quick.

01:24ya.

01:25I look loudly.

01:26I'm in one explicit 90 year old 18's.

01:27I offer them r buses, but sometimes it's all plenty of ceases to go.

Langdale Moor: Efforts to contain three-week blaze - ALL CREDIT: NYMMO - North York Moors Moorland Organisation

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