FIREFIGHTERS were called to a skip on fire in a Cornish town in the early hours of Sunday (August 16) morning.

The skip in St Austell was well alight and the fire had spread to nearby scaffolding. A fire crew from the town used a hosereel jet and wore breathing apparatus as they put out the blaze.

Elsewhere in Cornwall, firefighters tackled a number of fires in the open over the weekend. They fought such a blaze in the Mousehole area on Saturday (August 15) afternoon.

Later on Saturday, crews from Truro and Tolvaddon used hosereel jets and beaters to extinguish a grass and gorse fire at Tregavethan, near Threemilestone, and fightfighters from Perranporth, St Just and St Ives dealt with a gorse fire at Madron, using hosereel jets.