Investigators are looking into the cause of the fire
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Fire investigators are trying to establish the cause of a major gorse fire on Dartmoor.
About six square kilometres of moorland at Sheepstor was destroyed in the blaze on Sunday afternoon.
Walkers alerted the emergency services at 1300 GMT.
It took 40 firefighters about seven hours to put out the flames.
It is not yet known if animals were caught up in the fire.
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