Tractor Fire at Pylle Hill, Pylle, Shepton Mallet

By Tim Lethaby 16th Jul 2021

Date: 27.07.2019Time: 14:05Location: Pylle Hill, Pylle, Shepton MalletThe Fire Service received a call reporting a tractor towing an agricultural trailer with hay bales on fire at the above location.  Three fire engine from Shepton Mallet and Castle Cary attended as well as a water carrier from Bridgwater.Fire crews requested the attendance of a fourth fire engine from Glastonbury.  This was one tractor well alight and the fire was spreading to nearby hedgerow and a telegraph pole.Fire crews using compressed air foam systems, two breathing apparatus wearers, two main jets and one hose reel jet to extinguish approximately twenty hay bales.Update at 15:00 hrs - Fire crews are continuing to extinguish the fire using two main jets and two compressed air foam systems jets and have requested the attendance of the Environment Agency to help determine water run off.Update at 15:32 hrs - Fire crews are making steady progress and have requested the attendance of British Telecom to deal with the damaged telegraph pole.This incident is still ongoing... 

     

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