Tractor Run Celebrates Brave Langdale Fire Farmers

Saturday, 18 October 2025 06:00

Saturday sees a fleet of tractors setting off from Whitby past the former site of the Langdale Fire with residents invited to come out and greet farmers who fought the blaze.

A Yorkshire Coast woman whose appeal to help those tackling the Langdale Fire is now over £77,000 has organised a thank you tractor run.

Setting off from the Marina, at Whitby, at 11am, tractors are expected to be on the 40 mile round route throughout the afternoon, until around 5pm.

Many local farmers assisted firefighters for weeks to help bring the blaze under control.

Organiser Amy Cockrem says it's a great chance to thank those who helped tackle the blaze alongside firefighters:

"It's a thank you from the farmers and firefighters and that too. They want to thank the community and then like a thank you back from the community to them as well. Obviously some fire engines are getting involved as well, so it'll be good. We're aiming for quite a big turnout. It'd be good to get some fire crew involved as well, which they are trying to sort.

"Yeah, it's hopefully going to be big. It's scary really when you look back now to think, how serious it was and how frightening. Really devastating. But yeah, if it'd be lovely for the community to come out on the streets and applaud them as they all go past, it'd be brilliant to see as many people there as possible."

The vehicles are meeting at 9.30am on Saturday, Amy tells us more about the journey they'll take:

" We're going to Robin Hood's Bay, Hawsker and Helredale Road and such, if people want to come out. We're finishing off at Hawsker Village Hall, so for everyone, that's the tractor drivers and what have you, there'll be something on at the village hall for them. I will keep saying it. They're all just incredible just to and brave just to go out there and fight that fight like they did.

"They're just amazing. It's frightening really when you think back and drive up there now and look around and yeah, it's, it's scary, devastating."