Welwyn Garden City fire crew kept busy. (Image: Archant)
The Welwyn Garden City fire service was called out to two separate reports of fires in the same hour.
Yesterday at 4.21pm the fire service received a call to reports of a fire in the garden of a domestic property on The Crescent, Welwyn.
Herts Fire Control tweeted: “A crew from Welwyn Garden City attended. On their arrival the crew found this to be controlled burning.”
In the same hour at 4.49pm the Welwyn Garden City crew attended a property in Hyde Valley, after reports came in of an open fire.
A spokesman for Hertfordshire Country Council said: “A crew attended to discover it was a false emergency and was actually a controlled fire.”
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