CONCERNED residents called 999 after a fire was spotted in a residential area of Walney.

The on-call Walney fire crew was called to Avon Street at 8.53pm last night to reports of a fire in the open.

On arrival, firefighters discovered the fire was a supervised bonfire.

Advice was given to those supervising the bonfire.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">2053-<a href="https://twitter.com/Walney_Fire_Stn">@Walney_Fire_Stn</a> mobilised to Fire in the Open Avon St, Supervised Bonfire so advice given around Controlled Burning <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HappyToHelp?src=hash">#HappyToHelp</a> <a href="https://t.co/XlH9ktUT3U">pic.twitter.com/XlH9ktUT3U</a></p>— Walney Fire Station (@Walney_Fire_Stn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Walney_Fire_Stn/status/912808294607196160">September 26, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>