Incident
Vehicle fire
Date
6.47pm - 01 June 2024
Last updated
6.56pm - 06 June 2024
Status
Closed
Incident type
Large
Location
Meare
Attending station
Bridgwater
Glastonbury
Street
Cheddar
Fire control received a call to a Tractor fire in a field in Westhay. Fire engines from Glastonbury and Street attended alongside a water carrier from Bridgewater. On arrival crews requested an all terrain vehicle to assist with access.
Crews well able to confirm 1 tractor was well alight under a high voltage power line. Crews got to work with foam, a ground monitor, a hand line and a pump to extinguish the fire.
The tractor was 80% destroyed by fire , the mower was 5 % destroyed and 5m by 5m of peat land was destroyed by fire the over head line suffered no damage.
This was an accidential ignition.