Incident Summary – Day Shift, Tuesday 13th August
To ensure that people are not identifiable from our incident round-up, we will no longer be providing street names for smaller towns and villages, where incidents have occurred.
Time: 11:10 Location: Scarborough
Crews attended a residential property following reports of a fire. On arrival crews used 2 Breathing Apparatus and 1 Hose reel Jet to extinguish the fire which was the result of clothing on top of a hob.
Time: 12:37 Location: Pickering
Malton Crew attended a report of a tree that had brought down a low voltage power line. They cordoned off the area to make the scene safe. Incident left in the hands of Northern Power Grid.
Time: 13:28 Location: Skipwith
Crews from Selby and York responded to reports of a bailer that had caught fire in a field. On arrival Crews found the bailer and an area of the field alight. Using Breathing Apparatus, 2 hose reel jets and beaters they extinguished the fire.
Time: 14:04 Location: Whitby
While out mobile, the crew from Whitby were made aware of a road traffic collision where a pedestrian had been hit by a car. Crews assisted by controlling traffic while paramedics attended to the casualty.
Time: 14:06 Location: Harrogate
Harrogate crew were requested to aid Ambulance colleagues to extricate a casualty from a residential property.
Time: 15:29 Location: York
Crews went to reports of three people in the River Ouse in York. All 3 people were rescued and left in the hands of Ambulance crews.
Crews from Tadcaster, Scarborough and York also attended automatic fire alarms which were found to be false alarms.