FIREFIGHTERS are tackling a wood chip blaze in Birch.
Two fire crews from Colchester were called to Hutton Timber, Maldon Road at about 7.15am this morning after reports of a wood storage hopper on fire.
The hopper was well alight and firefighters were still trying to put it out more than an hour later.
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