North Yorkshire Fire Service believe the moorland fire at the A171 in August was a separate incident to the main moorland fire near RAF Fylingdales.
Investigations into the cause of the moorland fires are ongoing but fire officers now say it is unlikely that the files near RAF Flyingdales and near the Flask Inn on the A171 share the same source of ignition.
Ben Illsley is the fire service's Director of Emergency Response he says it is unlikely the two incidents are related.
"There was the declaration of the major incident on the 13th of August in the vicinity of RAF Fylingdales.
On the evening of the 14th, we received a call into our file control informing us of a fire near the flask area, towards the A 171, that is approximately three kilometers away from the fire we were dealing with.
There's a valley towards the middle and there, significant water in a beck that runs through there as well.
So a fire investigation is ongoing. We haven't determined an exact cause or released an exact cause for that incident. But there was a separate seat of fire which would be highly unusual for an incident of this nature, some three kilometers away.
Ben says that investigations into the causes of the fires are underway and praised the swift actions of fire crews and local farmers which stopped the A171 fire from spreading closer to local villages.
"With the typical moorland fire, even wind driven, it is extremely unlikely that the fire would jump three kilometers.
So. It was a separate seat of fire on the other side of the 171 near the flask area, which was at the time where the fire was more than three kilometers away.
We're looking for that and doing a joint investigation into to how that could be.
Swift actions by our officers immediately got six appliances there and we, again, we were supported by the local farmers.
So positively that fire was extinguished quickly, but it did create great risk. Especially at the time, we had a significant number of our resources deployed to an area three kilometers away.
And as I mentioned before, that the cause of fire is currently being investigated"
North Yorkshire Fire Service say they still have an average of three fire engines deployed at the scene of the Langdale Moor fire with crews actively managing flare-ups, monitoring weather conditions, and providing welfare support.
Ben Illsley says that while cooler, wetter weather is helping, deep-seated heat in the peat means flare-ups and visible smoke may still occur.
"If you get strong winds and wind gusts in that area. What it can do flames will come back up there. So it's been a very varying degree. Some are extremely small pockets.
Certainly over the last week or so, the flare ups have been very small in nature and we've had crews pro-actively dampening them down and getting on them quickly.
So certainly over the last week, the flare up. So just in the area that's currently involved in fire, there's been very small pockets. The size of a football quite often or even smaller where visible flame pops back up to the surface. "
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