Fire in agricultural building

Around five tonnes of hay bales were destroyed following a fire at an agricultural building in Boxted yesterday. Firefighters were called to the premises at 4.50pm on Saturday, 5 February and found a 12 x 8 metre building on fire as well as the manure heap next door to it. The building contained five tonnes of hay. Two adults were treated by the Ambulance Service for smoke inhalation.

Firefighters used special breathing equipment to fight the fire. 

They had doused the flames by 7.30pm with three crews remaining at the scene until just after 8.30pm to dampen the area down.

Some of the crews who are attended this incident are on-call firefighters.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service has more than 500 on-call firefighters and most on-call fire stations are currently recruiting on-call firefighters.

If you live or work within 5 minutes of an on-call fire station, you could be paid to protect your community as an on-call firefighter. Find out more about the role at join.essex-fire.gov.uk/on-call