The fire department that covers Milton Keynes have reported dealing with multiple outdoor fires in the last few days.

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue covered incidents that broke out over the course of the last few days, with the fire department reporting to incidents in Bow Brickhill, the Blue Lagoon Nature Reserve and Wolverton Park.

The incident in Bow Brickhill on the southern edge of Milton Keynes was a smouldering unattended campfire in woodland near to the village. The incident was reported around 11:20am yesterday (23/06).

Two water backpacks, buckets of water and haydrags were equipment used by the fire department, with a single crew from the West Ashland station used to deal with the situation.

The incident at Blue Lagoon was reported just before 5pm (23/06) today after fire among long reeds. An area measuring around fifty by twenty meters was affected.

One crew from West Ashland attended, with the attending firefighters using two water backpacks, buckets of water, beaters and a thermal imaging camera.

A previous incident had been reported on Sunday (22/06) around 5:45pm at a playpark in Wolverton Park in the north of Milton Keynes.

Firefighters were called to fire in a play area, which they were able to extinguish. Bucks Fire and Rescue reported the play area was approximately 30% damaged by fire.

Firefighters in a crew from West Ashland used water backpacks and buckets of water.

Outdoor fires have been reported in a long period of dry weather, with the Met Office declaring the spring of 2025 as the warmest and sunniest in the UK on record.