Buckets of water were used to douse a woodland blaze near Bingley by a human chain of firefighters.

Town crews were alerted after a walker reported that 20 teenagers had lit a fire in Goit Stock Woods yesterday afternoon, said watch commander Alan Wood.

“There was a group of about 20 boys and girls in their early teens who had been enjoying the waterfall and then lit themselves a campfire.

“It was obviously a dangerous thing to do because the undergrowth was tinder dry and it could have spread very easily,” Mr Wood.

“The fire was about a metre across and we had to make a relay of buckets over about half a mile.

“The kids understood that it was a bad idea to have done it especially at this time of year. Obviously the message about open fires in remote places is – bad idea, don’t do it.”