Fire crews battled a fire which took hold of two large trees and two fences.
The incident, which began at about 12.30pm, broke out in Sycamore Close, Canvey and two of the island's fire crews used two hose reel jets to tackle the flames.
Firefighters used a thermal imaging camera to check for hot spots and extinguished the fire by about 1.30pm.
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