FIREFIGHTERS dealt with a blaze at a Bournemouth heathland on Tuesday evening.

Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service received a report of a heath fire at Turbary Common at 6.39pm.

The fire involved an area of heath measuring approximately 30m x 30m.

Fire crews from Redhill, Springbourne, Poole and Christchurch attended.

It was extinguished using four hose reel jets and beaters.

The last crews left the scene just before 8.30pm.