Two tractors caught fire within an hour in Devon and Somerset yesterday (Thursday) as the heatwave continues.
At 5.10pm the fire service was alerted to a tractor reported to be well alight in a field in Hardington Mandeville.
Two fire engines from Yeovil and Sherborne and a water bowser from Yeovil were mobilised.
The crews got to work using a hose reel jet and a foam jet to extinguish the fire.
They then used a thermal imagine camera to check the surrounding area.
The tractor was 90 per cent damaged by fire and smoke.
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Less than an hour later, at 5.56pm the fire service was called to reports of another tractor fire, this one on a road in Treborough.
Three fire engines were mobilised, two from Minehead and one from Williton.
Arriving at the scene they found the tractor and its attached machinery well alight on the side of the highway.
All the tractor's occupants were found safe and well.
Firefighters used two hose reel jets and a Compressed Air Foam Systems jet together while wearing breathing apparatus.
Although the fire was extinguished, both the tractor and its attached machinery were totally destroyed.
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