FIREFIGHTERS are still at the scene of a farm blaze on Teesside which has blazed through the night.
Twenty five firemen fought the fire at Dovecote Farm, Elwick, Hartlepool, at its height, on Monday night.
Fire crews set up an exclusion zone around the farm buildings after oxyacetylene cylinders were discovered in a large barn used as a garage workshop.
Crew Manager Kevin Harrison said: "There were oxyacetylene cylinders there which obviously caused problems.
"We had to set up an exclusion zone around the barn, pull the appliances back and restrict the number of people around it.'' A car and various tools stored in the barn were destroyed in the blaze as well as the building itself.
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