FIREFIGHTERS spent more than five hours tackling a scrubland blaze in North Yorkshire.
Some 750 square metres of woodland, undergrowth and illegally-dumped waste caught fire in a blaze that is believed to have started from a nearby bonfire.
Firefighters were called to the scene at a disused quarry by Beacon Bank, near Ampleforth, shortly before 10am today, May 3, and had the incident under control by 3.17pm.
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