Firefighters take on 2km-long moorland blaze close to Ripponden

Firefighters are tackling a 2km (1.2 mile) lengthy moorland blaze in West Yorkshire.

The blaze broke out close to Oldham Road in Ripponden at about 12:15 BST, West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (WYFRS) stated.

The reason for the blaze isn’t lately identified and smoke has been noticed billowing around the M62.

A WYFRS spokesperson stated 18 crews, together with firefighters from Greater Manchester, have been on the scene the usage of specialist wildfire apparatus to take on the hearth.

They requested the general public to keep away from the world.

The hearth is the newest in a sequence of moorland blazes in West Yorkshire in contemporary weeks.

Earlier, the Met Office showed Thursday used to be the warmest begin to May on file, with temperatures achieving 28C in London.