Firefighters Extinguish Blaze On Whitmoor Common

Published on: 22 Apr, 2019
Updated on: 25 Apr, 2019

Firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze on Whitmoor Common this afternoon (Monday, April 22).

Gorse burnt by the fire on Whitmoor Common, Monday, April 22, 2019.

The fire on the heathland off Saltbox Road started at about noon and at 1pm Surrey Fire & Rescue service asked people to avoid the area.

By 6pm firefighters remained on the common checking the area that had burned, less than the size of a football pitch.

Firefighters remained on Whitmoor Common during the evening, Monday, April 22, 2019.

The fire mainly consumed an area of thick gorse and by Monday evening people were allowed on to the common and the footpaths next to where the fire had burned.

In June last year a fire on Whitmoor Common affected about 30 acres. Today’s fire was close to that area.

The area of the fire was near to the larger blaze on June 21, 2018.

Within the past week there have been fires on nearby heathland at Sheets Heath at Brookwood (Wednesday, April 17) and on Chobham Common on Friday, April 19.

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