Posted on 07/23/2026 11:11:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A farmer has described feeling "absolutely gutted" following a blaze on land.
Steven Conisbee, who runs Barracks Farm in Fetcham, said he awoke on Friday at 22:00 to some loud bangs and then immediately after his son called to say the farm was on fire.
"I leapt out of bed, threw some clothes on, jumped in my pickup truck and headed down," he told the BBC.
"I thought the barn was on fire, but the sky was lit up orange."
Conisbee, a ninth-generation farmer, continued that he discovered his "best wheat field" was ablaze.
"The wind was blowing," he told the BBC.
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“Muslim lightning”
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In my Dad’s day, it was called something else...
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