Firefighters tackle Browndown Ranges blaze in Gosport for three hours
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Four crews from Gosport and Fareham attended the scrubland blaze with specialist vehicles from other stations at Grange Road, Gosport at 2.31am today. The fire took hold of a 390ft by 330ft area of scrubland. Four hosereel jets were used, alongside lances, beaters and knapsacks, and the fire was out by 5.56am.
It comes after a huge blaze overnight on July 12-13 at Browndown Ranges that was started deliberately.
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Hide AdPosting on Twitter at 4.21am, fire service area manager Jason Avery said: ‘Fire now surrounded and damping down in progress.
‘Unfortunately this is the second call here of this size in a number of weeks.’