Crews from across Derbyshire deployed to football pitch-sized fire sparked by motorbike set alight

At 3.37pm on Tuesday, July 5, the Bolsover Fire Station received reports of a fire in the open, which had engulfed part of the fields behind Woodhouse Farm in Shuttlewood.

When fire crews arrived, an area of grassland bigger than a football pitch was ablaze. The fire had been started after a motorbike was set alight.

Teams from Staveley Fire Station were also deployed to the scene to support their Bolsover colleagues. The crews were eventually able to extinguish the blaze.

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The Bolsover crew said that various habitats and wildlife were affected by the fire – and that they had informed the police of the incident.