Cornwall gorse fires at Nare Head and Zennor

Two gorse fires have broken out in coastal areas in Cornwall.

Emergency crews said they were called to one blaze on Nare Head, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) near Veryan, at about 23:00 BST on Monday.

Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said it was about 100m (330ft) on all of it fronts at its peak.

Crews were also sent to a gorse blaze at Zennor, near St Ives, in west Cornwall.

Kate Smith, who posted a video of the Zennor fire on social media, tweeted that it had been "still going strong two hours after I found it".

The fire service control centre, which said it had taken "multiple calls" about the incidents, said both blazes were under control by early Tuesday afternoon and one crew was staying at each site to monitor them.

Cornwall has experienced unusually high temperatures, along with the rest of the country, but rain has been moving across the county, with some thunder and lightning in the west on Tuesday morning.

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