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Charlotte Du Cann, a local in the area, said she was on a walk with a friend when she saw a "ring of fire" that was around 20 feet long, as the Suffolk wildfire started. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I was walking back from Dunwich Heath the beach and so we've just crossed into
00:06Minsmere woods and I heard a crackle and I thought what is that and then my
00:11friend Yash who was with me said I smell smoke and we both looked down and there
00:15quite a way down quite away from everything was a circle of fire it was
00:20not big it was like maybe 20 foot across and so we kind of jump we thought okay
00:26what are we going to do so we're jumping on it trying to stamp it out totally
00:29unreliable footwear I think we had fire beaters we might have been able to get
00:33it out but it was just no way because it suddenly lit the it lit the heather and
00:38then sorry it leapt leapt up to a Scots pine and then before we knew it was a
00:43congregation so we we rang the fire brigade straight away and I ran across
00:48the Heath to tell the people at the National Trust
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