Fire crews from across the county attended a fire at a pheasant pen early this morning. 

Crews from Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge were called out to prevent the fire, in Broughton Gifford, from escalating and have been ‘cooling the propane cylinders’. 

It comes following a number of other fires in the area recently.

The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald:

Crews from Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service attended 339 fires in the open in July alone.

This showed a 182 per cent increase to the 120 fires attended in the same month last year.

A fire also recently broke out on Pewsey Hill over the weekend, with around 20 acres of the field burning on August 7.

Group manager Dave Waters said: “The risk is as great in your garden as it is on a heathland but taking extra care, and perhaps doing things a bit differently to usual, can make a huge difference to staying safe.”