Ellesmere firefighters tackle the grass fire at the cricket club on Friday. (Image: Ellesmere Fire Station)
Fire crews were called out after a fire was deliberately started on grassland near a north Shropshire cricket club.
The Ellesmere crew was mobilised to reports of a fire in the open at Ellesmere Cricket Club just after 8pm on Friday (April 24).
This incident was a deliberate fire set on grassland, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service said.
A report on Ellesmere Fire Station's Facebook page said crews used one knapsack and a thermal imaging camera to extinguish the fire.
It was the crew's second call-out of the day, after officers attended a fire alarm in Oswestry at 3.40pm.
That incident turned out to be a false alarm.
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