Firefighters have spent the night dealing with a deep seated fire at a peat bog in Wilmslow.
Crews were called to the incident at Lindow Common just before 9pm on Bank Holiday Monday, May 2nd.
The fire was well developed when the crews arrived, covering approximately 100 x 300 metres of peat.
The firefighters, from three different stations had to remain at the scene throughout the night and used Rossmere Lake to provide the water to surround the fire and bring it under control.
Due to the nature of the fire being deep seated within the raised mire of peat, it took fire crews a number of hours to fully extinguish the smouldering bog.
Three appliances from Wimslow, Knutsford and Poynton attended the fire then a relief crew from Macclesfield took over at 1am.
Firefighters eventually left the scene just before 9am on Tuesday, May 3rd.
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There have been many peat fires in the high moorland areas of Lancashire,Yorkshie, Cheshire and Derbyshire over which fire control has been difficult due to the isolated areas of the terrain with poor road access. It is when fires occur in those areas that the greatest difficulty confronts those who try to fight such fires.