Community comes together to support firefighters tackling blaze at Langdale Moor

Many people have donated food and water

Author: Kathy GreenPublished 15th Aug 2025

Firefighters say they're incredibly thankful for the communities support - as they spend a fifth day battling a moor fire.

Food and water has been donated for the crews at Langdale Moor.

Angela Hepworth runs the Old Chapel Tea Rooms in Castleton and is inviting them to come in for a rest: "We'll offer them a breakfast bap, either bacon, sausage, eggs or beans on toast or have a cup of coffee or a pot of tea. Just a space where they can come and wind down and just be at peace again."

Meanwhile crews remain at the scene and are likely to be there for the next few days.

Ben Illsley is from the service and explains they had to change tact after munitions exploded on land which was a former army base: "As an abundance of caution we have withdrawn the crews from working on the actual Moorland...we've adopted a more defensive and containment approach now from the perimeter and aerially which has gone live on the scene."

"A lot of the ground that is involved in the fire is heavily peaty so it does burn for a considerable time. Our expectations are that the fire will continue to burn for a number of days.

"There is less visible flame on scene today but there is masses of energy within that peatland that will burn for a number of days now, generating smoke to that area."

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