Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team discovered the fire yesterday evening.
A member of the volunteer rescue team who was running on Levisham Moor came across a moorland fire some 2km from any roads.
After calling North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service and meeting the Fire Officer he offered assistance from the team with 4-wheel drive vehicles. This was accepted with the Mountain rescue Team's two Land Rovers being deployed to help ferry Fire Fighters back from the scene. A third of their vehicles was deployed later to bring bottled drinking water out to the scene for the Fire Fighters.
The rescue team had six team members and three vehicles directly involved for four and a half hours with a further seven on standby.
The Mountain Rescue team say:
"The moors and forests are tinder dry at the moment, please take care not to start any open fires and report any incidents immediately to the emergency services."
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