Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service Newsdesk

A389, Bodmin to Lanivet at 13/06/2014 14:48

At 14:48 multiple repeat calls were recieved to several areas of hedgerow on fire on the road from Bodmin to Lanivet. Its believed that a Steam traction engine which was travelling down the road at the time had caused the fires as a result of hot embers coming from its fire box. Six firefighters from Bodmin attended the scene and reported that there were many seats of fire over a 300 metre stretch of low hedge and grass. The fires were extinguished using beaters and two hose reel jets.