Fire incident – Levisham Moor – 20th June, 16:55 – (28/2022)
A member of the team running on Levisham Moor came across a moorland fire some 2km from any roads. After calling NorthYorkshire Fire and Rescue and meeting the Fire Officer he offered assistance from the team with 4-wheel drive vehicles. This was accepted with our two Land Rovers being deployed to help ferry Fire Fighters from the scene. A third of our vehicles was deployed later to bring bottled drinking water out to the scene for the Fire Fighters.
We had six team members and three vehicles directly involved for four and a half hours with a further seven on standby.
The moors and forests are tinder dry at the moment, please take care not to start any open fires and report any incidents immediately to the emergency services.
