Fire crews attend reignited blaze at Alver Valley GosportÂ

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FIREFIGHTERS have been recalled to tackle a large heath fire in Gosport after it reignited this lunchtime.  Â

Crews from Gosport, Fareham, Portchester and Cosham were mobilised to Browndown in Alver Valley at 12.40pm to treat two hectares of smouldering heath that has reignited following last night's fire.

'˜Crews are still on the scene attempting to bring it under control,' a spokesperson for Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said.

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Six engines and two Land Rovers battled a blaze there last night following a call at 5.44pm.  They extinguished the fire using six pumps and left the scene at 9.17pm. 

A 300sq m area of the Ministry of Defence site was scorched and blackened in the incident.

Havant and Fareham crews were also attending a small fire in Staunton Country Park at midday today that has now been put out.

The incidents also follow a gorse fire last night that tore through a stretch of the boundary at Beachlands Golf Course on Hayling Island.   

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