Essex County Fire and Rescue Service offers a 24/7 service to the press. Our incident database is updated on a regular basis by the media team and we have established a hotline - 01376 570 814 - where you will be able to reach us round-the-clock. We do ask that routine check calls are not made between 10pm and 6am, 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 from incidents may be downloaded for publication. These may be used free of charge by all accredited newspapers and media agencies providing they carry a credit to Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. Breaches of this arrangement will result in an invoice of £70 per image. Our film footage may also be used under similar arrangement.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 00000
Date: 07-09-2010
Time: 17:32
Details: Update - 17:32hrs - Tuesday
Address: No Incidents of Note
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 19473
Date: 07-09-2010
Time: 15:09
Details: RTC - woman trapped
Address: A129, Billericay
Attendance: 1 x Billericay, 1 x Basildon, 1 x Southend Rescue Tender
Firefighters released a 50 year-old woman who was trapped in her car by her injuries following a two vehicle RTC this afternoon.
Crews used one set of hydraulic cutting equipment and had released her by 15:49hrs leaving her in the care of the ambulance service.
Crews also made the vehicle safe and moved it off the roadway .
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 19345
Date: 05-09-2010
Time: 20:09
Details: Four Vehicle RTC
Address: A12, Junctions 14 to 15
Attendance: 1 x Ingatestone, 1 x Brentwood, 1 x Chelmsford, 1 x Grays Rescue Tender
One man was trapped following a four vehicle RTC this evening. The collision involved two cars and a lorry on the northbound carriageway and one car on the southbound.
Two men had been released from their vehicles without the help of firefighters but a third man had to be cut out.
Using two sets of hydraulic cutting equipment crews had released him by 20:57hrs leaving him in the care of the ambulance service.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 19313
Date: 05-09-2010
Time: 14:27
Details: Agricultural equipment alight
Address: Ashdon Road, Saffron Walden
Attendance: 2 x Saffron Walden
Firefighters tackled a fire involving a bailer and tractor both in a field of stubble.
Wearing four sets of breathing equipment and using three hose reels crews had extinguished the fire by 17:14hrs.
Sub Officer Nigel Webb said: "Crews did an excellent job in extinguishing this fire so quickly and preventing it from spreading to becoming a far larger field fire.
"Fields of stubble go up easily and this fire could have spread out of control except for the fact that crews were on top of it so quickly. It is thanks to their swift actions and professionalism that this fire was contained and extinguished so quickly.
"The bailer was completely destroyed and the tractor suffered extensive damage."
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 19288
Date: 05-09-2010
Time: 06:12
Details: Bungalow Fire - elderly woman suffers smoke inhalation
Address: Greenview Park, Clacton
Firefighters gave oxygen therapy to a 90 year-old woman who had suffered smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in her bungalow early this morning.
The officer n charge reported that the bungalow was heavily smoke logged and that there was a small fire.
Wearing two sets of breathing apparatus and using one hose reel jet crews had extinguished the blaze by 06:33hrs. They also used a positive pressure ventilation fan to clear smoke from the bungalow.
The woman was left in the care of the ambulance service.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 19106
Date: 02-09-2010
Time: 20:09
Details: Road traffic collision - female trapped
Address: B184 Monk Street, Thaxted
Attendance: 1 x Dunmow, 1 x Thaxted, 1 x Harlow
Firefighters used specialist cutting equipment to remove the roof of a vehicle to free a female casualty. The woman, suffering neck and back injuries, was left in the care of the Ambulance Service.
The incident involved two vehicles and the casualty was freed by 20:52 hrs. -
Details/ImagesIncident No: 19094
Date: 02-09-2010
Time: 16:35
Details: Stubble fire over two hectares
Address: Mowden Hall Lane, Hatfield Peveral
Attendance: 2 x Chelmsford, 1 x Witham
Firefighters are tackling an incident in which a fire in field of subble has spread over two hectares. Firefighters are using four hose reel jets and beaters to tackle the blaze.
Update The fire was fully extinguished by 17:39hrs. The cause has been recorded as deliberate.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 19035
Date: 01-09-2010
Time: 18:17
Details: Road traffic collision - three injured
Address: A120, Elmstead Market, Colchester
Attendance: 1 x Wivenhoe, 1 x Colchester, 1 x Weeley
Crews were called to assist at a road traffic collision involving two vehicles. Firefighters called for the assistance of the Ambulance Service to deal with three walking wounded - one with arm injuries and two with neck injuries.
They made the vehicles safe before leaving the scene at 18:33 hrs. -
Details/ImagesIncident No: 19011
Date: 01-09-2010
Time: 14:41
Details: Dog with head stuck in railings
Address: King George Field, Clairmont Drive
Attendance: 1 x Colchester
Firefighters released a dog which had got its head stuck in a set of railings. Crews took just 17 minutes to free the hapless animal.
Leading Firefighter Quentin Sage said: "It was a whippet or greyhound type dog and what had happened is it had put its head through the railings and got it trapped by a sign which was bolted onto the fence.
"All we had to do was unbolt the sign and it was able to get itself out no problem.
"Once he was out the dog just shook his head and we gave him a drink of water and he seemed none the worse for wear for his ordeal. We were glad to get him out so quickly."
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 18978
Date: 01-09-2010
Time: 05:55
Details: Function room fire
Address: Stifford Clays Social Club, Crammavil Street, Stifford Clays
Attendance: 2 x Grays
Firefighters were alerted by Police who had responded to a burglar alarm at Stifford Clays Social Club and discovered a fire.
On arrival at the scene, crews reported that the fire involved a burning sofa in a function room. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used one hose reel to tackle the fire at the property, which is single storey and measures approximately 20m x 30m.
The incident was dealt with by 06:23 hrs. There will be a joint Police and Fire Service investigation to establish the cause of the incident.
