{"id":74252,"date":"2025-08-17T23:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74252\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:31:18","slug":"crews-tackle-field-wildfire-near-braintree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74252\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews tackle field wildfire near Braintree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Crews have tackled a large wildfire close to a railway line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It broke out near Cressing, Braintree, and covered approximately five hectares of stubble, cornfield and hedgerow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Essex County Fire &amp; Rescue Service was called out just before 14:00 BST on Monday and requested additional support from Halstead&#8217;s water bowser and an off-road vehicle from Burnham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Station manager Scott Fretton said: &#8220;Crews worked hard in hot and dry conditions to surround the fire which ended up jumping over the railway line to a small embankment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Fretton added the control room had &#8220;some difficulty finding access points for the site&#8221; and encouraged people to download the what3words app. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He said the app helped control colleagues find the exact location of the incident to the west of Tye Green using the words <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/what3words.com\/rephrase.loosens.noon\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;rephrase.loosens.noon&#8221;<\/a>, which helped them get crews out more quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews have tackled a large wildfire close to a railway line. It broke out near Cressing, Braintree, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-74252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74252","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=74252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}