{"id":733672,"date":"2026-08-10T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733672\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:56:10","slug":"crews-deal-with-peatland-fire-at-nature-reserve-in-cambridgeshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733672\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews deal with peatland fire at nature reserve in Cambridgeshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers came out in &#8216;absolute force&#8217;published at 15:01 BST<\/p>\n<p>15:01 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Martin, a man with short brown hair and a brown beard. He is wearing a green T-shirt, looking into the camera.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/247b85f5-aec1-413a-840c-33cdc0047d7e.jpg.webp\"  width=\"3043\" height=\"1712\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Tom Jackson\/BBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Martin is one of the farmers helping fire crews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the response had been &#8220;tremendous&#8221; and &#8220;well-organised&#8221; and he described how quickly farmers had mobilised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yesterday, they were worried about running out of water and so within half an hour, there were bowsers turning up, there were sprayers filled with water, farmers laying irrigation pipes as well  &#8211; so really coming out in force to save this amazing bit of woodland,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin said farmers went back on Sunday evening after a call for machinery to help create fire breaks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said changing wind conditions meant efforts were focused on protecting nearby homes and the railway&#8217;s East Coast Main Line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We could see fire starting up again, kind of spontaneously, flames rising up and being put out as this kind of really dry peat, these old trees, were setting back on fire. And as we were cutting a break, we could smell the smoke,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We could see just people working phenomenally hard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were hearing from the response team back in Holme village, who were providing food and drink, that there were starving, really thirsty firemen and women, health workers, and all kinds of different people up there in need. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was pretty controlled, and well-organised.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farmers came out in &#8216;absolute force&#8217;published at 15:01 BST 15:01 BST Image source, Tom Jackson\/BBC Tom Martin is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}