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| Crews tackle washed-up wood fire | Crews tackle washed-up wood fire |
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| Firefighters have managed to contain a large fire in wood that was washed ashore on a West Sussex beach. | |
| Some 40 firefighters were tackling the blaze at Worthing among timber from a cargo spillage in the English Channel. | |
| There had been fears the fire would spread through the timber and threaten nearby beach huts. | |
| But earlier measures by the council to break the timber into smaller piles means the fire was contained to a single wood pile. | |
| Gary Towson, from West Sussex Fire Service, told the BBC: "The council at a very early stage - when they were rescuing it [the timber] from the beach - broke it up into smaller piles just to prevent, you know, one huge bonfire on Worthing seafront. | |
| "But it does appear unfortunately that there's one pile well alight, but they've managed to stop it spreading to all the others." | |
| Beaches along the Sussex coast from Ferring to Hastings were littered with 2,000 tonnes of timber when the Ice Prince ship sank off Dorset in January. | Beaches along the Sussex coast from Ferring to Hastings were littered with 2,000 tonnes of timber when the Ice Prince ship sank off Dorset in January. |
| Worthing was the worst affected, with wood covering large areas of the beach. | Worthing was the worst affected, with wood covering large areas of the beach. |