Fires controlled with buckets of water and backpacks.
They are used to operating high tech ladders, apparatus and equipment but yesterday, simple buckets of water were the order of the day for Milton Keynes fire fighters.
In the morning, a crew from Bucks Fire Service’s West Ashland station were called to a smouldering unattended camp fire in woodland in Church Road, Bow Brickhill. Firefighters used two water backpacks, buckets of water and haydrags to put it out.
A few hours later the crew was back out again, this time to extinguish an area of about 1000 square metres of long reeds on fire. The firefighters used two water backpacks, buckets of water, beaters and a thermal imaging camera at the blaze in the Blue Lagoon Nature Reserve, Bletchley.
