The Met Office’s Fire Severity Index, which assesses how bad a fire could become if one were to start, has rated East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire as being a “very high” risk, external with some parts in the “exceptional” category.
Humberside Fire and Rescue Service logged 17 grass or field-based fires on Monday and Tuesday.
The incidents included a “major blaze” at a commercial property in Scunthorpe, farm-based fires at Westbeck Hill, Warter, and another at Long Lane, Pollington. Crews were also called to a field fire in West Cowick.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service was also called out to a fire at a workshop and field in Wigtoft, near Boston, on Monday.
The service later issued a plea asking people not to carry out “controlled burns under any circumstances” and said the “risk of fires spreading and growing out of control was significantly heightened”.
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