Fire crews have had another busy time dealing with several incidents ranging from grass fires to car crashes.

Hertfordshire Fire & Rescue responded to a number of 999 calls in the Watford area yesterday and overnight.

This included a fire in bushes in Stephenson Way at around 9.45am and a small area of grassland on fire that a crew from Garston put out in Nascot Wood Road during the mid-afternoon.

The Stephenson Way fire was initially spotted by Richard Bolt and his National Grid colleague Louis Wood.

The flames grew larger but the pair used their on-board fire extinguisher to control the fire as they waited for firefighters to arrive.

Watford Observer: National Grid workers used their own extinguisher to put out a fire in Stephenson Way. Credit: Richard BoltNational Grid workers used their own extinguisher to put out a fire in Stephenson Way. Credit: Richard Bolt

 

Elsewhere, scrubland caught fire in Green Lane, Oxhey Hall, that Watford and Garston crews attended at 7.43pm and undergrowth on fire around an hour later in Grove Mill Lane that a crew from Watford extinguished.

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Further calls about a bin fire in Watford High Street at around 8pm and a car fire in Trinity Hall Close shortly before 5am today were also dealt with.

A fire under a tree was also put out in Cassiobury Park at 5.25am.

Yesterday evening, a crew from Hemel Hempstead also helped with a two-car crash in Hempstead Road, Kings Langley after being called at 7.46pm, which is also when crews from Watford and Rickmansworth were dealing with a collision involving four vehicles on the M25 anti-clockwise between junction 19 for Watford and 18 for Chorleywood.

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It’s not just fires and crashes that firefighters respond to with a crew coming to the rescue in The Crescent.

The fire service says it was called at 7.26pm yesterday to a person who was locked out of a property with a one-year-old inside.

A crew from Watford attended and were able to get inside the address.

This summer has been one of the busiest period for the fire service in Hertfordshire with a major incident declared during the record-breaking heatwave earlier this month after crews responded to more than 450 emergency calls in a day.

More than 130 firefighters also battled a blaze at a car workshop earlier this week in St Albans that spread to neighbouring businesses.

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