Moment hero farmers stop field blaze spreading to housing estate after braving flames in their tractors to plough emergency firebreak

Jay Loft, 22, and Cameron Bartram, 19, reacted quickly when a blaze spread over 750 yards across wheat fields in the Woodthorpe area of York on Sunday afternoon.


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