Large pile of newly felled trees go up in smoke
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Firefighters were confronted with a large pile of blazing newly felled trees on a Wigan borough industrial estate.
The Atherton crew suspected that the stacked timber, which had recenly been cut down as part of a land clearance project at a site off Coalpit Lane in Atherton, had been deliberately set alight.
The blazing pile, roughly 25m by 10m in size, took about 90 minutes to put out, using two hose reels. A fire hydrant also had to be deployed.