Fire at Kinson Common among other incidents in Dorset

Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to Kinson Common at 6.36pm on Wednesday, September 21, following reports of a fire.

The blaze was affecting approximately 10m x 4m of heath and gorseland.

Crews from Redhill Park and Westbourne were sent, along with a water carrier from Poole and a small 4x4 appliance from Ferndown. They used one hose reel jet together with beaters and water backpacks to extinguish the fire within one hour.

The call to stop came at 7.15pm. No official cause is yet known.

Elsewhere on Wednesday, further crews were called to Mansfield Avenue in Poole at 6.52pm following reports of a kitchen fire at a domestic property. Thankfully, the fire was out by the time crews from Poole and Springbourne attended.

Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service

Shortly after, at 8.14pm, the service received a call to a fire in Talbot Village, Bournemouth. 

One crew from Redhill attended and found a wooden climbing frame on fire. According to the service, 10 per cent of the frame was damaged by fire before it was extinguished using one hosereel.

Later in Bournemouth and crews from Springbourne and Redhill attended a property fire in Alma Road having been called at 11.53pm. Crews found this to be a fire in the kitchen on the ground floor which was dealt with by using ventilation and isolation.

Three other incidents, one on Wednesday evening and two in the early hours of Thursday, were also attended but turned out to be false alarms. One in Dolphin Quays, Poole was caused by cooking and another in Bournemouth was due to a system fault.