Fylingdales/Langdale Wildfire Debrief - North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service

The Fylingdales Moor/Langdale End wildfire was one of the most significant incidents ever faced by the Service. The wildfire happened in summer 2025 and required a long, coordinated response involving many organisations working together.

On 18th June 2026 we released our debrief report and redacted fire investigation report.

Below you will find the plain text version of the report which contains no graphics or you can read the PDF version Langdale debrief report

Foreword from CFO Jonathan Dyson

1. Introduction

2. Timeline

3. Prevention and Preparedness

4. Pre-incident planning and risk info

5. Training and development

6. Fire behaviour, peat and fuel characteristics

7. Land management

8. Command and control

9. Fire Control

10. National Resilience

11. Strategic holding area

12. Incident Handover

13. Assets and equipment

14. Helicopter cabability

15. Water sourcing and environmental constraints

16 Duty systems and workforce

17. Health, safety and risk management

18. How was the risk mitigated

19. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Personal Respiratory Protection (RPE)

20. Unexploded Ordnance and defence land

21. Facilities and feeding

22. Local Resilience Forum

23. Non Category 1 and 2 Responders – Land Management Organisations

24. Local landowners and farmers

25. Bellwin funding and approval process

26. Internal communications

27. External communications and media management

28. Warning and Evacuation

29. Organisational Resilience

30. Community and environmental impact

31. Recovery

32. Fire investigation

33. Conclusion

34. Recommendations

35. National / Joint Organisational Learning (NOL / JOL) Summary

36. Governance, Assurance and Embedding Learning

37. Acknowledgements

38.Glossary