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: 15000
Date: 18-07-2010
Time: 03:59
Details: Large rubbish fire
Address: Quebec Avenue, Southend
Attendance: 2 x Southend
Crews wearing breathing apparatus used two hose reels to tackle a large rubbish fire.
At 04:20 hrs, the officer in charge reported that the fire was at the front of a property and that flames were now affecting the structure of the building. The fire was out by 04:31 hrs.
A joint Police and Fire Service investigation will be carried out to establish the cause.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 14998
Date: 18-07-2010
Time: 02:12
Details: Garden fire affects bungalow
Address: Sea Way, Jaywick
Attendance: 2 x Clacton
Crews were called to tackle a fire in a garden, which was affecting two bungalows. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used two hose reels to tackle the fire and a drum of foam was used to cool a large drum of heating oil involved in the incident.
The incident was dealt with by 02:56 hrs. A joint Police and Fire Service investigation will be carried out to establish the cause.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 14958
Date: 17-07-2010
Time: 17:15
Details: Grass fire
Address: M11, junction 5-6
Attendance: 2 x Loughton, 1 x Harlow
Just minutes after ECFRS Control operators took some 50 calls to a grass fire on the A12 (incident 14956), there were between 30-40 calls from motorists travelling on the motorway reporting a similar incident.
Firefighters were sent to the scene to tackle a grass verge alight. The incident was dealt with by 17:34 hrs.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 14956
Date: 17-07-2010
Time: 17:04
Details: Grass fire prompts dozens of calls
Address: A12, junction 25-24
Attendance: 1 x Coggeshall, 1 x Colchester, 1 x Witham
ECFRS Control operators received some 50 calls to a small grass fire by the side of the A12. The incident was dealt with by 17:21 hrs.
The incident happened at about the same time as a similar job on another busy route, the M11. See incident 14958
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 14820
Date: 17-07-2010
Time: 10:43
Details: Road traffic collision
Address: Thorpe Road, Clacton junction with Kiln Barn Avenue
Attendance: 2 x Clacton, 1 x Colchester
Crews were called to a road traffic collision involving two vehicles. An elderly woman was treated in her car by Ambulance Service paramedics but no-one was trapped.
Crews made the vehicles and roadway safe before leaving the incident at 10:59 hrs.
We have no further information
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 14906
Date: 17-07-2010
Time: 06:46
Details: Man trapped under wall
Address: Moreton Road, Ongar
Attendance: 1 x Ongar, 1 x Leaden Roding, 1 x Brentwood, 1 x Harlow
Crews were called to free a 24-year-old casualty from under a brick wall. Firefighters were called in by Ambulance crews to assist in the rescue.
ECFRS' Urban Search and Rescue team was ordered to the incident with heavy lifting gear but the casualty was released by firefighters using specialist cutting equipment and tools and strops before they arrived at the scene.
At 06:59 hrs, crews reported that efforts were being made to clear the area so that they can reach and release the casualty. He was free by 07:24 hrs and left in the care of the Ambulance Service.
We have no information relating to how the accident happened or casualty injuries.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 14903
Date: 17-07-2010
Time: 03:39
Details: Suspicious garage fire
Address: Middle Mead, Rochford
Attendance: 1 x Rochford, 1 x Southend
A joint Police and fire service investigation will be carried out into the cause of a fire which affected a garage. Crews used one hose reel to tackle the incident, which was dealt with by 04:34 hrs. An LPG cylinder was involved in the fire but crews reported that the cylinder appeared cool and there was no need for further action.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 14899
Date: 17-07-2010
Time: 01:36
Details: Baled hay alight
Address: Chequers Road, Little Bromley
Attendance: 2 x Manningtree, 1 x Colchester
Cres spent several hours tackling a blaze involving 60 tonnes of baled hay. They reported that the hay, in a field off Chequers Road was well alight when they arrived at the scene. Firefighters used one hose reel and beaters to douse flames, which were under control by 04:45 hrs.
Two pumps and a special off-road Pinagauer were sent to deal with the incident. At 06:22 hrs, a relief crew was sent to the scene to continue turning over and damping down and to make sure the fire is fully extinguished.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 14654
Date: 14-07-2010
Time: 02:22
Details: Man stuck in high tide
Address: The Strood, West Mersea
Attendance: 2 x Colchester, 1 x Mersea
Firefighters were called to rescue a man stuck in high tides in the Strood. The man had driven his car into the tide, which had been at its highest around half an hour earlier.
The officer in charge reported that the man was in no immediate danger and that there was no need for the coastguard or RNLI to attend.
Crews led the man to safety at 03:13.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 14650
Date: 13-07-2010
Time: 23:50
Details: Bungalow fire
Address: Brooklands Gardens, Jaywick
Attendance: 2 x Clacton, 1 x Weeley
Firefighters attended a fire in a bungalow measuring seven by 10 metres. The officer in charge reported that 50% of the property was well alight.
Using two hose reel jets and one main jet and wearing two sets of breathing apparatus crews had extinguished the fire by 00:45hrs. No one was hurt or trapped a s a result of this fire.
An investigation will now take place to establish the cause of the fire.
