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: 12305
Date: 19-06-2010
Time: 03:41
Details: Fatal Fire
Address: Galleywood Road, Chelmsford
Attendance: 2 x Chelmsford, 1 x Baddow
A man died after a fire broke out in his home while he was sleeping in the early hours today.
Crews wearing breathing apparatus carried the man out of the smoke filled house and he was taken to hospital, but later died.
The fire was extinguished by 04:09hrs, crews wore four sets of breathing apparatus and used two hose reel jets.
A smoke alarm in the property was not working because the batteries had been removed.Smoke alarms provide vital early warning of a fire giving everyone time to get out to safety and away from the toxic smoke which quickly fills the home in a fire.
An investigation to establish the cause of the fire will be carried out.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 12627
Date: 18-06-2010
Time: 14:15
Details: RTC - car in ditch
Address: A12, northbound, Margaretting
Attendance: 1 x Chelmsford, 1 x Ingatestone
Firefighters are working to stabalise a car which has left the A12. There are three people in the car, although none are trapped and will be able to get out as soon as the car is stable.
Update 14:46hrs - Firefighters used a power saw and a winch to stablise the car and helped the three people out of the car.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 12199
Date: 17-06-2010
Time: 15:47
Details: Fire in recycling plant
Address: Station Road, East Tilbury
Attendance: 2 x Orsett, 2 x Grays, 1 x Basildon, 1 x Corringham, 1 x Rayleigh Weir
Firefighters are tackling a fire which has affected a machine at a reuse and recycling yard.
On arrival crews found that the machine was completely alight. initially crews were hampered by poor access to water, but using a water relay (in which fire engines take it in turns to leave the site and re-fill their water tanks before returning - crews had the fire surrounded by 17:20hrs.
Crews are using two main jets and are continuing to damp down the machinery.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 12169
Date: 17-06-2010
Time: 09:12
Details: RTC - two people trapped
Address: Lodge Lane, Grays
Attendance: 2 x Grays, 1 x Orsett
Two people were released - each from a separate vehicle - following a two vehicle RTC this morning.
Using three sets of hydraulic cutting equipment crews had released them both by 10:18hrs. The two people were left in the care of the ambulance service.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 12144
Date: 16-06-2010
Time: 20:59
Details: House fire - gas main alight
Address: Darwin Road, Tilbury
Attendance: 2 x Orsett
A family has been evacuated from their home after a gas main adjoining their property caught light. The main is attached to the terraced property and firefighters are keeping the main burning while using a jet to keep the surrounding area cool until the leak can be isolated by Gas engineers.
At 23:39 hrs, crews reported that the Gas Board was in attendance and they were awaiting the arrival of another crew from the Gas company to arrive to evacuate the neighbouring area.
The incident was dealt with by 23:59 hrs. The cause of the fire is undetermined as crews were originally called to a bin fire and it is not clear how the gas main became involved in the incident. -
Details/ImagesIncident No: 12134
Date: 16-06-2010
Time: 18:52
Details: Man trapped under digger
Address: Ongar Road, Brentwood
Attendance: 2 x Brentwood, 1 x Grays
Crews were called to assist in the rescue of a man trapped under a digger following a road traffic collision.
Firefighters were called in by the Ambulance Service who were attending the incident on farmland opposite The Priors.
Two airbags and a specialist ram tool were used to free the casualty who was left in the care of paramedics.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 12110
Date: 16-06-2010
Time: 13:13
Details: House fire
Address: Cross Road, Maldon
Attendance: 2 x Maldon
Firefighters were called to a fire in the kitchen of a semi-detached house. Crews wearing breathing apparatus used one hose reel and one dry powder extinguisher to put the fire out by 13:36 -
Details/ImagesIncident No: 12062
Date: 15-06-2010
Time: 21:11
Details: Derelict house alight - man hurt
Address: Southend Road, Stanford le Hope
Attendance: 2 x Orsett, 2 x Corringham, 1 x Southend
Crews are tackling a fire in a derelict house. Initially two appliances were sent to the scene, but ECFRS Control operators received dozens of calls to the incident so two additional pumps were ordered to the scene, along with an aerial ladder platform from Southend.
At 21:23 hrs, firefighters requested the attendance of the Ambulance Service after leading a 30-year-old man out of the burning building to safety. Crews administered oxygen therapy and first aid to the casualty, who was later placed in the care of paramedics.
At 21:42 hrs, Station Officer Geoff Wheal reported that the two-storey unoccupied property was well alight. He said that crews were using two hose reels and one jet to tackle the blaze.
At 22:00 hrs, Station Officer Wheal reports that 20 per cent of the property, measuring 8m x 12 metres is still alight. Crews wearing breathing apparatus are using three jets and two hose reels to extinguish the fire, which has now been sectorised and is being brought under control.
The incident was dealt with by 23:36 hrs. A revisit is planned for 07:00 hrs Wednesday and the fire investigation will begin after 09:00 hrs (Wed)
Station Officer Wheal said: "When we arrived the entire first floor of the building was well alight.
"Breathing Apparatus crews went to the back of the building and that is where they found a man, who was unconscious on the floor, they carried him to safety and we gave him first aid until ambulance crews arrived.
"It was a derelict workshop so we were not expecting anyone to be in there. This man is lucky crews did such a thorough search or he would not have survived this ordeal.
"The building was old and rickety and presented a number of problems for crews, but everyone worked very hard and it is thanks to their efforts that this fire was brought under control so quickly and that the man who was in the building is alive today."
ADO Tony Clarke said: "All of the crews did a fantastic job getting this fire under control. Incidents like this show how important it is that the owners of disused properties properly lock their buildings."
A fire service investigation has determined the cause of the fire as deliberate.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 12034
Date: 15-06-2010
Time: 16:56
Details: Tree fallen on people
Address: Harlow Mill Pub, Cambridge Road, Harlow
Attendance: 2 x Harlow
Firefighters are attending an incident in which a large tree has fallen trapping people in the gardens at the Harlow Mill Public house.
Update 17:29hrs - A tree measuring 15 metres by 15 metres has fallen in the pub garden. Two people have been rescued and left in the care of the ambulance service and firefighters are using thermal imaging cameras to search for other casualties who may have been in the vicinity and trapped under the tree.
ECFRS' Urban Search and Rescue dog Darcy and her handler John Ball were deployed to the incident to assist in the search for further casualties. At 18:39 hrs, crews reported that there were no further casualties and that the incident had been dealt with.
Station Commander-John Sherrington from Harlow Fire Station added:
"The two people who had been sitting in the pub garden when the large willow tree fell were released with minor injuries."The Urban Search and Rescue dog Darcy was called in to search under the foliage of the willow tree, as it was insure whether there were further casualties, a full search of the area was made and fortunately no one was trapped."
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 11798
Date: 15-06-2010
Time: 08:21
Details: Road traffic collision - two trapped
Address: Oakwood Avenue junction East Road, West Mersea
Attendance: 1 x Mersea, 2 x Colchester
Firefighters are using specialist cutting equipment to free two casualties trapped following a road traffic collision. The incident involves two vehicles and at 09:06 hrs, firefighters reported that the two casualties remain trapped and that efforts were being made to free them.
Crews administered first aid to the casualties while waiting for the Ambulance Service to arrive at the scene.
The casualties were released by 09:28 hrs and left in the care of the Ambulance Service.
