{"id":61825,"date":"2025-08-27T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/north-yorkshire-langdale-moor-fire-fighters-face-exploding-wwii-ordinance\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:38:34","slug":"north-yorkshire-langdale-moor-fire-fighters-face-exploding-wwii-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/north-yorkshire-langdale-moor-fire-fighters-face-exploding-wwii-ordinance\/","title":{"rendered":"North Yorkshire Langdale moor fire fighters face exploding WWII ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Tim Dale<\/span><\/p>\n

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The fire, which covers an area of around 10 sq miles, is inland between the seaside towns of Whitby and Scarborough<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Fire crews battling a vast moorland blaze in North Yorkshire have said they have been hampered by exploding World War Two bombs and tank shells.<\/p>\n

Emergency services have been tackling the fire, which covers about 10 sq miles (25 sq km), on Langdale Moor, in the North York Moors National Park, since Monday 11 August.<\/p>\n

The county’s chief fire officer Jonathan Dyson said part of the site had been a tank training ground in the 1940s and there had been more than 18 explosions as the fire had burned down through the peat to previously hidden explosives.<\/p>\n

Mr Dyson said the fire service was treating the incident as a “significant wildfire” and had requested help from other services across England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Dyson said in some places crews had to adopt a “very defensive fire-fighting strategy” due to the unexploded bombs.<\/p>\n

“As the peat continues to burn down it is finding the Word War Two ordnance and therefore exploding and we have now experienced over 18 ordinance explosions within key areas.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Watch: Drone footage captures scale of Langdale fire<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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Mr Dyson said up to the weekend they had made significant progress in managing and containing the fire but, with a change due to the wind and the temperature, the blaze had “more than doubled in 24 hours”.<\/p>\n

“The fire has made a rapid spread further north and across to the north west,” he said.<\/p>\n

Crews were trying to minimise the spread and had 10 appliances committed to the operation along with 60 firefighters, he explained.<\/p>\n

“I have today made a request to National Resilience for national assets to be deployed to the area.”<\/p>\n

Mr Dyson said the help would consist of up to 10 appliances from other fire services across England and was expected to arrive swiftly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Part of the moor was used during World War Two for tank training<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n


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