Firefighters tackled a building fire in North Herefordshire in the early hours of this morning.
Crews from Leominster, Kingsland and Hereford were called to an agricultural building fire in Wharton.
The fire service said the blaze involved woodchip feeding a biomass burner in a building measuring 30m by 30m.
Firefighters used two hosereel jets and two mainline covering jets using water supplied from the water carrier to extinguish the fire.
No injuries were reported.
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