OTTERTY firefighters tackled a blaze involving a hay baler, which spread to a field on the town s outskirts on Tuesday.

OTTERTY firefighters tackled a blaze involving a hay baler, which spread to a field on the town's outskirts on Tuesday.

Crews raced to the field, near the Salton Manor Hotel, at around 5.30pm to find the machine alight and around an acre of the field was burning.

The crews used two hose reels and two beaters to extinguish the fire.