Crews battle 'very tricky' cliff fire

Fire fighters will check the site over the next few days

Fire crews have used 41,000 litres of water to put out a cliff-side fire in Sark.

Sark Fire Service said it was called to the incident at Les Laches shortly after 22:00 BST on Friday, before it was extinguished at 03:30 on Saturday.

It said the "very tricky" fire covered an area of about 50m x 50m, and "very strong westerly wind" fanned the flames.

The fire spokesperson said nobody was injured and no properties were damaged.

The fire service said it was "very tricky" to extinguish

The fire service said the area was used for burning tree branches from around the island, but said no such fires had happened recently.

It said it was a deep-seated fire, with potentially "many months of smouldering underground".

"So an ember that was possibly in a tree stump that hadn't extinguished just kept burning," the spokesperson added.

It said the site would be checked periodically over the next few days.