Seventh combine harvester fire in a week

Spalding firefighters attended a combine harvester blaze in Crowland on Saturday morning.

There was severe fire damage to a quarter of a tonne of grain within the harvester in a field at Postland Road.

The blaze, at 9.23am, was extinguished using one hose reel and two drags. It was caused by residual heat

PREVIOUSLY: Firefighters tackled two more combine harvester fires yesterday (Wednesday) evening, making it six in three days.

At 7.48pm crews from Crowland and Spalding tackled a blaze involving a combine harvester and 200sqm of straw stubble.

They used used two hose reels, one main jet and beaters to extinguish the fire, which was caused by a fault within the harvester.

Later, at 9.25pm, crews from Donington and Spalding responded to reports of a harvester on fire near a wheat field on North Drove, Quadring Fen.

There was fire damage to a small quantity of chaff and straw within the engine compartment. Crews used one hose reel to extinguish.

The incident followed a combine harvester fire earlier on Wednesday in Donington and one in Moulton Seas End on Tuesday and Surfleet on Monday.