article_snippet.sent: Flames leaping and acrid smoke billowing into the sky, a huge fire rips through bone dry heathland near the south coast.
article_snippet.sent: Fanned by 40mph winds, flames up to 35ft high spread rapidly through the nature reserve near Christchurch.
article_snippet.sent: Crews had to contend with a 400 yard wide wall of flames that moved at dangerous speeds.
article_snippet.sent: The billowing smoke could be seen from around ten miles away in Wimborne and Swanage.
article_snippet.sent: Commander Craig Baker of Dorset Fire and Rescue Service said: ‘It is probably one of the largest heath fires Commander Craig Baker of Dorset Fire and Rescue Service’ve had for a couple of years.
article_snippet.sent: Billowing black smoke could be seen from 10 miles away in Wimborne and Swanage as crews battled to get the fire under control .
highlights_snippet.sent: Flames up to 35ft high  engulfed 70 hectres of the St Catherine's Hill nature reserve in Christchurch, Dorset .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: saw the blaze spread across the heathland dangerously quickly .
  