The incidents shown on this page are a selection of the most notable incidents Essex County Fire and Rescue Service has attended. Click on the headline of each incident to see the full details.
Please note this is not an exhaustive list.
An archive of historic incident details are available on our Transparency site.
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Map pins are a rough guide to the incident location, not the exact position.
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Chip pan fire
Leys Drive, Little Clacton
12/02/2019 @ 17:42 -
House fire
Mount Avenue, Hutton
12/02/2019 @ 16:11 -
House fire - started by mobile phone/charger
Fennells, Harlow
12/02/2019 @ 12:23 -
Road traffic collision
Boreham Road, Chelmsford
11/02/2019 @ 12:38 -
Road traffic collision
Thorpe Hall Avenue, Thorpe Bay
09/02/2019 @ 09:18 -
Discarded cigarette causes kitchen fire
Pytt Field, Harlow
06/02/2019 @ 12:51 -
Firefighters rescue elderly man from house fire
Waveney Drive, Chelmsford
05/02/2019 @ 09:16 -
Car fire, M25
M25, Waltham Abbey
04/02/2019 @ 06:41 -
Fatal light aircraft collision
Bells Road, Belchamp Walter
03/02/2019 @ 11:54 -
Road traffic collision - one casualty
Mersea Road, Langenhoe
02/02/2019 @ 23:06
In addition to our incident database, which is updated on a regular basis by our media team, we have a press hotline - 01376 570814 or email press@essex-fire.gov.uk. If you are not the press, use 01376 576000 for other enquiries.
We ask that routine press check calls are not made between 9pm and 8am, because all items of interest will be posted here as they happen. Please note this is NOT a service for the public and press from outside our local area are asked politely to adhere to these guidelines.
Photographs & Video
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