Fire service incidents

This page highlights a selection of significant incidents attended by Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service, including status, location, type and attending stations.

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Large fire in the open - smoke visible from 6 miles away

Crews from Suffolk are being supported on scene by colleagues from Norfolk Fire and Rescue (incident ref: 027192)

Closed

Mill Lane, Metfield

29 July 2026

2:15pm

Fire

Bungay, Leiston, Halesworth

Large forest fire on Dunwich Heath

Crews from Suffolk Fire and Rescue are in attendance at a large wildfire on Dunwich (incident reference: 027239)

Ongoing

Dunwich Heath

29 July 2026

5:00pm

Fire

Leiston, Reydon and Southwold, Halesworth, Beccles, Ipswich Princes Street, Ipswich East, Lowestoft South, Lowestoft North, Stradbroke, Wrentham, Bungay, Saxmundham, Haverhill, Orford, Stowmarket, Felixstowe, Woodbridge

Undergrowth well alight in woodland

Crews from three fire stations have been mobilised to a fire in the open (incident reference: 027138)

Closed

Hazel Shrub, Bentley

28 July 2026

2:35pm

Fire

Ipswich Princes Street, Ipswich East, Leiston

Crop fire in Butley

Crews from three stations in attendance at a crop fire in Butley (incident reference: 027154)

Closed

Lower Corner, Butley

28 July 2026

6:57pm

Fire

Woodbridge, Orford, Leiston

Crews mobilised to fight fire in the open

Three fire appliances and a water bowser are on scene (incident reference: 027055)

Closed

Marks Lane, Santon Downham

27 July 2026

12:45pm

Fire

Newmarket, Brandon, Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds

Field fire in East Bergholt

Crews are in attendance at a field fire on Putticks Lane, East Bergolt (incident reference: 026898)

Closed

East Bergholt

25 July 2026

6:48pm

Fire

Ipswich Princes Street, Ipswich East, Holbrook, Felixstowe, Stowmarket, Hadleigh, Nayland, Long Melford, Haverhill, Ixworth, Debenham, Sudbury, Bury St Edmunds, Elmswell

Building fire in Ashfield cum Thorpe

Crews are in attendance at a building fire on Grove Lane in Ashfield cum Thorpe (incident reference: 026855)

Closed

Ashfield cum Thorpe

24 July 2026

06:25pm

Fire

Needham Market, Ipswich Princes Street, Debenham, Saxmundham, Stowmarket

Fire in the open off Old Norwich Road, visible from A14

Crews have been mobilised to attend the fire which has been reported as a possible field or woodland fire (Incident ref: 026295)

Closed

Old Norwich Road, Ipswich

17 July 2026

10:37am

Fire

Ipswich Princes Street, Ipswich East, Needham Market, Newmarket

Compost heap fire in Monks Eleigh

Crews in attendance at a compost heap fire in Monks Eleigh (incident reference: 026014)

Closed

Monks Eleigh

14 July 2026

6:21am

Fire

Hadleigh, Long Melford, Sudbury

Crop fire, Hawstead

Six engines and a mobile support unit are set to a fire in a wheat field near Bury St Edmunds. (Incident reference: 026059).

Closed

Hawstead

14 July 2026

12:57pm

Fire

Stowmarket, Sudbury, Long Melford, Haverhill, Newmarket, Thetford

Fire affects rail services in Ipswich

A fire which spread to a railway embankment resulted in services being briefly affected. (Incident reference: 016540).

Closed

Ipswich

14 July 2026

12:41pm

Fire

Ipswich Princes Street, Ipswich East

Field fire in Clare

Crews are in attendance at a large fire in the open on Stoke Road in Clare (incident reference: 025821)

Closed

Clare

12 July 2026

4:07pm

Fire

Clare, Haverhill, Long Melford, Sudbury, Bury St Edmunds, Nayland, Ixworth, Newmarket