Major wildfire spreads across North Yorkshire Moors as farmers help tackle blaze and animals evacuated

Major wildfire spreads across North Yorkshire MoorsSource: North York Moors Moorland Organisation

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00:00fighting fire with fire we've got a swipe in here we're going to back burn to a forestry road

00:09we'll keep us alighting the back burn with fire brigade following the bottom edge of the cut

00:15got engines on the front side stopping it crossing the road there we're going to take a swipe

00:1920 yards back we've got another one another 10 yards and that there is the big langdale fire

00:26that's now hit the trees a little back so we're going to put this margin in

00:35open fire brigade there's a hell of a people here fire brigade farmers contractors keepers

00:42yeah all doing a cracking job hopefully it's stopped