KEIGHLEY firefighters joined crews from across the district to tackle
a large moorland fire last night.
Crews from Bingley, Keighey, Shipley, Bradford and Fairweather Green, plus the specialist wildfire unit based at Keighley, were called to Beckfield Road at Cottingley at around 5.25pm.
The blaze spread from Beckfield Road to Airedale Road and involved around 200m of dry bracken.
Four large jets and seven beaters were used to extinguish the fire.
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