WATCH: Drone footage of moorland left devastated after freak February wildfire

Dozens of firefighters were at full stretch last night (Tuesday) and this morning, as a fire raged for several hours leaving a huge swathe of National Trust land scorched and destroyed.

The smoke and flames on Marsden Moor, west of Huddersfield, could be seen for miles around as a kilometre-long front of flames spread across the hillside on Tuesday night after Britain saw its hottest winter day on record.

Firefighters who tackled the fire was highly unusual for February and a product of days of dry weather.

Two-metre-high flames tore through the countryside, which one eyewitness described as 'apocalyptic'.

"It just looked like an apocalypse, how I imagined an apocalypse to be really, like the end of the world."

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