Fire crews raced to an East Lothian field on Sunday (August 7) after a huge blaze started on local farmland.
Emergency crews arrived on the scene in Musselburgh near the Edenhall hospital shortly before 4pm after the fire quickly took hold.
The blaze spread over a long stretch of farmland, with large plumes of smoke seen rising into the air.
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Video taken from the scene showed firefighters trying to control around three areas of flames, with the blaze reaching heights of over a metre as it burned through crops.
The blaze was subsequently able to be contained to one area of the farmland, with a combine harvester seen ploughing a field in a bid to save some of the crops.
Speaking to Edinburgh Live, local resident and eyewitness Chris London told how the blaze travelled at an 'alarming rate'.
He said: "Just after 3.30 pm I could smell smoke strongly in our back garden, so headed out to investigate as there have been some fires started maliciously in the fields recently. It didn't take long to see where it was coming from. The field to the East of the old Edenhall Hospital.
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"On arrival there just before 4pm the fire brigade were already in attendance. The fire appeared to have been started in the field directly behind the Pinkiehill Crescent play park. One was started in the same spot back on July 21 too. With the strong wind today it didn't take too long for the fire to appear to at times become out of control.
"All this was happening with a contractor for the farmers desperately trying to harvest the rest of the wheat or barley crop in the field at the same time as can be seen in the video. The fire ripped through the field at an alarming rate at times, and had "The Drift" footpath not been widened and tarmaced a few months ago, the adjacent field with much taller grass and wildflowers in it gone up in flames too. It acted as a very good fire break. Quite a large section of the whole east side of the field had been burnt down."
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service have been contacted for comment.
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