Ongoing incident on Lizard Peninsula following series of fires
A live video from St Keverne Fire Station.
Click here to see the latest report from yesterday's incident.
Fire crews from across the local area are having to battle with numerous incidents in the Lizard Peninsula. Crews from Mullion, Helston and St. Keverne have been committed to the area this afternoon, initially, crews attended Goonhilly Downs area and dealt with approximately one hectare of gorse, which was extinguished using beaters. Crews then were mobilised to a further incident in the Gwenter area, a water carrier from Helston also attended, crews were involved in protecting two properties that could have been threatened by the advancing gorse fire. A contingency plan was put in place to protect the properties and to also proceed to extinguish the fire. The incident is ongoing this evening. More updates when we have them.
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