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Pumps called to blazing heath

Published: 7:15 PM June 23, 2003    Updated: 8:43 PM February 17, 2021

SIX fire crews were called to a heath fire today in Ipswich.Shortly after 5pm, firefighters tackled the blaze on a patch of gorse, 150m by 150m, which was well alight off Foxhall Road.

SIX fire crews were called to a heath fire today in Ipswich.

Shortly after 5pm, firefighters tackled the blaze on a patch of gorse, 150m by 150m, which was well alight off Foxhall Road.

Three appliances from Colchester Road and three from Princes Street attended the blaze, as well as a water bowser.

The fire was brought under control by 6.20pm.

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