Manure fire kicks up a stink
TWO TONNES of manure caught on fire in Corringham. Fire crews were called to a report that two tonnes of manure on fire on One Tree Hill in Corringham on Saturday afternoon (May 11th).
TWO TONNES of manure caught on fire in Corringham. Fire crews were called to a report that two tonnes of manure on fire on One Tree Hill in Corringham on Saturday afternoon (May 11th).
FIRE CREWS wearing breathing apparatus used one hose reel to tackle a fire in the derelict Jack Lobley School premises in Leicester Road, Tilbury.
The fire was in the single storey old school room.
CREWS are tackling an incident involving a diesel storage tank. The tank involved is empty but was used to store diesel. Firefighters have launched a major foam attack. Appliances from across the county have been sent to the scene. 12 pumps, some 60 firefighters, along with specialist appliances carrying foam and hose are part of the pre-determined attendance to this type of site. An aerial ladder, rescue tender and incident command unit have also been sent to the scene.
FIRE crews have been called to a fire in a ground floor flat. Crews report the property is heavily smoke logged. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus and are using two hose reels to tackle the fire.
FIRE CREWS are using four hose reels to tackle a blaze involving two mobile homes.The incident occurred at Clarence Way, Buckles Lane, South Ockendon.
FIRE CREWS are tackling a fire involving a large pile of tyres near to the Tilbury Fort. Crews are wearing breathing apparatus and using two hose reel jets and one foam jet to tackle the fire.
FIRE CREWS were called to tackle a blaze in a large industrial caravan at Industrial Chemicals, Hogg Lane, Grays. Crews arriving at the scene reported that the caravan was well alight and that propane cylinders were involved in the fire.
FIRE-FIGHTERS were called to a Tilbury scrapyard on Saturday night to tackle a massive blaze. Crews got there at just after 2.30am to Hume Close in Tilbury.
FIRE CREWS released a woman trapped following a two vehicle road traffic collision in Chadwell St Mary. The crash happened on the Chadwell Road at 1.30pm on Sunday afternoon (March 24th).
ECFRS Control Operators received a number of calls from residents trapped in their flats in Broxburn Drive South Ockendon by smoke from a burning communal post box. Firefighters used one hose reel to extinguish the fire in the timber framed postbox attached to a wall of the property.
FIRE CREWS using specialist cutting equipment and small tools to release one man, trapped following a road traffic collision involving two vehicles.
The incident occurred at 10am on Saturday morning (March 16th) on the A13 London bound between Orsett Cock and Dock Approach turn offs.
A FIRE broke out at Treetops School on Thursday afternoon. All of the staff and children evacuated the school quickly and efficiently and there were no injuries.
Firefighters have been called to a straddle carrier on fire at Tilbury docks. A forty foot container on the ground is also reported to be 100 percent alight. Crews are using two jets to extinguish the fire.
Firefighters tackled a fire in a third floor flat in Dunlop Road, Tilbury. On arrival the incident commander reported that the flat was 25% alight and 100% smoke logged. Wearing breathing apparatus and using two hose reel jets firefighters had extinguished the fire by 19:24hrs.
FIREFIGHTERS were called to assist in the rescue of two trapped casualties following a road traffic collision on the Manorway in Corringham. The incident involves three vehicles.
Firefighters were called to a fire in a mid-terraced house in West Thurrock. On arrival the incident commander reported that the house was in the middle of a block of four terraced two storey houses and that it was 100% alight while all the other houses were heavily smoke logged.
Firefighters fought to release a woman trapped following a three vehicle RTC. Crews used one set of cutting equipment. Update: Crews had released the woman by 14:42hrs. They used one set of cutting equipment.
FIRE crews were called to an address in Fobbing after reports of a fire in Fobbing. Crews were called at 07:30 on Feb 20th to High Road, Fobbing.
FIRE crews were called to a fire in a disabled toilet in the Woodview campus of South Essex College on Friday morning (Feb 15th). The toilet located on the ground floor was in a detached two storey building measuring approximately 20 x 20 metres, situated in the college grounds.
FIRE CREWS were called to Riverside Leisure Centre in Tilbury after reports of a fire. The incident occurred at 7pm on Wednesday night in Quebec Road.
A MAN was trapped after a road traffic collision involving two vehicles. Fire crews were called to Sandy Lane in Aveley around 2.30 pm on Friday (Feb 9th)
A FIRE in a house in Chadwell St Mary has left a family homeless. Fire crews were called to a tumble dryer on fire in a maisonette on Felicia Way, Chadwell St Mary. The first floor of the property was 10 percent alight, the rest of the property was heavily smoke logged.
FIRE CREWS tackled a fire in a bungalow in Marshfoot Road, Chadwell St Mary on Monday evening (Jan 21st). The officer in charge reported that 25% of the loft and roof of the bungalow – which measures eight metres by 10 metres – was well alight.
OVERNIGHT the Essex Fire Service attended two incidents in which people had suffered the effects of carbon monoxide. In the first six people in Tilbury were taken ill with carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a coal fire.
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