Firefighters battle 300m heath fire at Browndown in Alver Valley in GosportÂ

By The Newsroom
Published 18th Jul 2018, 22:46 GMT
Updated 18th Jul 2018, 23:53 GMT

FIREFIGHTERS have been called to tackle a large heath fire in Gosport. Â

SIX engines and two Land Rovers battled a blaze at Browndown in Alver Valley, Gosport  tonight.

Crews tackle the fire at Browndown, in Gosport, which has left land visibly blackened and scorched. Picture: Portchester Fire Station on Twitter (@Portchester28)placeholder image
Crews tackle the fire at Browndown, in Gosport, which has left land visibly blackened and scorched. Picture: Portchester Fire Station on Twitter (@Portchester28)

The fire '“ the second in two days there, according to Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service '“ damaged a 300sqm area of land at the Ministry of Defence site. 

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Crews from Gosport, Fareham, Cosham, Portchester, Havant and Eastleigh were called to the area at 5.44pm. 

They extinguished the fire using six pumps and left the scene at 9.17pm. 

A dramatic photograph shared by crews on Twitter shows just one part of the land which was scorched and blackened in the incident. 

 

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