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By Tom Orde Crime and court reporter
Firefighters in Royal Victoria Country Park, Netley FIREFIGHTERS raced to a popular country park to tackle multiple blazes over the Easter weekend. Crews were called out to Royal Victoria Country park to extinguish two bonfires. Firefighters from Hightown Fire Station were on the scene in Netley on Sunday night. A spokesperson for Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said: A crew from Hightown Fire Station attended Royal Victoria Country Park at 7.40pm on Sunday, April 4 and used one hose reel jet to extinguish two bonfires. Police were requested to attend and the stop message came in at 8.04pm.
Firefighters have managed to extinguish the last remnants of a fire which devastated three thatched cottages. Fire crews from three counties were called to the terraced cottages at The Barracks in Bransbury, near Barton Stacey, following a fire beginning in the roof of one of the central cottages. This then spread to the neighbouring cottages, with over 100 firefighters battling to save the fourth from destruction. Hampshire fire called a stop message for the incident on Tuesday, March 9 at 13:29, a few hours shy of three days after the fire began. While the main body of the fire had been extinguished on Monday using equipment including breathing apparatus, covering jets, hose reels and compressed air foam solution, smouldering thatch had continued to burn.