Firefighters tackle Browndown Ranges blaze in Gosport for three hours

FIREFIGHTERS tackled a wildfire at Browndown Range for more than three hours.
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Four crews from Gosport and Fareham attended the scrubland blaze with specialist vehicles from other stations at Grange Road, Gosport at 2.31am today.The fire took hold of a 390ft by 330ft area of scrubland.Four hosereel jets were used, alongside lances, beaters and knapsacks, and the fire was out by 5.56am.

It comes after a huge blaze overnight on July 12-13 at Browndown Ranges that was started deliberately.

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Posting on Twitter at 4.21am, fire service area manager Jason Avery said: ‘Fire now surrounded and damping down in progress.

‘Unfortunately this is the second call here of this size in a number of weeks.’