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: 11953
Date: 14-06-2010
Time: 13:46
Details: RTC - one person trapped
Address: Anger Road, Harwich
Attendance: 1 x Dovercourt, 1 x Manningtree, 1 x Colchester Rescue Tender
Firefighters released a man who was trapped in his car following a two vehicle RTC. Crews had released him by 14:36hrs leaving him in the care of the ambulance service.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 11949
Date: 14-06-2010
Time: 11:05
Details: Kitchen fire
Address: Colchester Road, Southend
Attendance: 2 x Southend
Two elderly people suffered from the affects of smoke inhalation following a fire in the kitchen of their home. They were given oxygen therapy by crews and later left in the care of the Ambulance Service.
Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used one hose reel to extinguish flames. When the fire was out, they ventilated the property using a high pressure fan.
The incident was dealt with by 11:42 hrs. We have no information relating to the cause.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 11934
Date: 14-06-2010
Time: 08:24
Details: Road traffic collision - one trapped
Address: Five Bells Roundabout, Vange
Attendance: 2 x Basildon, 1 x Grays, 1 x Corringham
Crews were originally called to a fuel spillage following a road traffic collision. On arrival at the scene, the officer in charge reported that the incident involved three vehicles with one person trapped so supporting appliances were immediately mobilised.
At 08:39 hrs, crews reported that efforts were being made to extricate one casualty trapped in one of the vehicles.
The incident is likely to cause some traffic disruption for commuters at this main route into Basildon.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 11916
Date: 13-06-2010
Time: 19:14
Details: Fatal road traffic collision
Address: Ongar Road, Stapleford Tawney
Attendance: 1 x Ongar, 1 x Loughton, 1 x Harlow
Firefighters were called to assist in freeing two casualties trapped following a road traffic collision.
The incident involves a car and a cyclist and both vehicles have left the roadway and are in a ditch.
Crews used airbags, hand tools and a winch as they work at the scene and at 19:8 hrs reported that one person had been released and placed in the care of the Ambulance Service. Efforts were being made to free the second casualty.
It was confirmed that one man died as a result of the incident, which was dealt with by 19:54 hrs. -
Details/ImagesIncident No: 11864
Date: 13-06-2010
Time: 02:58
Details: Investigation after pub fire
Address: Parsons Barn, Frobisher Way, Shoebury
Attendance: 1 x Shoeburyness, 1 x Southend
A joint Police and Fire Service investigation will be carried out to establish the cause of a fire at the side of a pub. Flames were already out when crews arrived at the scene and they left the incident at 03:11 hrs.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 11863
Date: 13-06-2010
Time: 01:00
Details: Car into cottage
Address: Butchers Shop Plantation Road, Boreham
Attendance: 1x Baddow, 1 x Chelmsford, 1 x Colchester
Crews were called to assist at a road traffic collision involving one vehicle which had left the roadway and hit a cottage.
The three male occupants of the vehicle were already out when firefighters arrived at the scene. One received medical attention at the scene and was later taken to hospital by ambulance.
A structural engineers and an advisor from ECFRS' Urban Search and Rescue team were requested to attend the incident to inspect the structure of the building. No action was needed by USAR crews.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 00000
Date: 12-06-2010
Time: 18:46
Details: Public toilets alight
Address: Marine Parade, East Clacton
Attendance: 1 x Clacton, 1 x Weeley
Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used one hose reel to tackle a fire that broke out in public toilets on the beach. The incident was dealt with by 19:10 hrs. A fire investigation will be carried out to establish the cause of the incident. -
Details/ImagesIncident No: 11833
Date: 12-06-2010
Time: 17:40
Details: Blaze involving 50 scrap vehicles
Address: Autobrake, Haven Road, Colchester
Attendance: 2 xColchester, 1 x West Mersea, 1 x Tiptree, 2 x Manningtree, 2 x Brentwood (including control support vehicle)
Firefighters are tackling a major blaze involving 50 scrap cars. ECFRS Control officers have received dozens of calls to the incident as huge plumes of smoke could be seen for miles around.
Initially two appliances were sent to the scene and at 17:55 hrs, the officer in charge reported that crews wearing breathing apparatus were using a foam branch to douse flames. Firefighters reported that the cars were 100 per cent well alight and the officer in charge requested the attendance of an additional crew for manpower.
Later at 18:20 hours, he requested an additional pumping appliance to attend the incdent, along with a Pinzgauer special off-road vehicle from Manningtree. An additional pump and the ECFRS Control Unit were later sent to the scene from Brentwood as firefighters battled to contain flames.
At 18:20 hrs, Station Officer Costa Olymbios, the officer who has taken charge of the incident, reported that crews were using one foam branch, two main jets and a ground monitor in fire-fighting operations. He reported that the fire had been sectorised and that crews were working to bring flames under control.
At 18:20 hrs,Police were called in to deal with traffic congestion as crews have hose running across the road.
At 19:29 hrs, crews reported that the fire had been extinguished following assistance from scrap yard staff using a crane. Firefighters expect to be on the scene for some time turning over and damping down and ensuring there are no hotspots.
The last crew left the scene at 22:30 hrs. A revisit was carried out at 07:00 hrs Sunday to ensure the site remained safe.
A two pump relief will be sent to the scene at 20:30 hrs.
"We will be conducting a fire investigation into the cause of the incident, which appears to have started out as a car fire and spread across other derelict vehicles quite quickly" said Station Officer Costa Olymbios.
"We received quite a number of calls to the incident because it created such thick dense black smoke that could be seen from neighbouring areas.
"The first three crews had some difficulties with the closest water being 10 hose lengths away, so they had to work quickly to establish a water supply. Fortunately there were no surrounding buildings, so it was a matter of surrounding the fire and keeping it contained until flames were out." -
Details/ImagesIncident No: 11778
Date: 11-06-2010
Time: 19:37
Details: Smoke alarm alerts neighbour to fire
Address: Trunette Road, Clacton
Attendance: 2 x Clacton, 1 x Weeley
A neighbour alerted crews after hearing a smoke alarm sounding in the next door house. He was able to raise his neighbour inside the burning building and potentially save him from serious injury.
The man heard the alarm and went to investigate and saw smoke pouring out of a bathroom window. He dialled 999 and crews from Clacton were quickly on the scene.
A 30-year-old man, inside the burning property, was already out when crews arrived at the scene. Crews administered first aid while waiting for an ambulance to arrive. The man was treated by the Ambulance Service for shock and smoke inhalation.
Initially two appliances were sent to the scene. On arrival, the officer in charge requested the attendance of a third crew. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled the blaze.
At 19:50 hrs, crews report that the semi detached house, measuring 6m x 6m, is 50 per cent alight but the whole of the property is heavily smoke logged.
The incident was dealt with by 20:11 hrs. The fire was extinguished using three hose reels and one main jet. A dog was rescued from the fire but sadly died at the scene. -
Details/ImagesIncident No: 11726
Date: 11-06-2010
Time: 06:55
Details: Caravan fire
Address: Buckles Lane, South Ockendon
Attendance: 2 x Grays, 1 x Orsett
Firefighters were called to a caravan on fire on a permanent residential site. The caravan was 100 percent alight and crews wearing breathing apparatus used two hose reels and one ground monitor to extinguish the fire by 07:33
Update 07:45
Two gas cylinders were involved in the fire and were close by to the caravan on fire and are cooling off. Fire crews remain at the incident damping down and monitoring the gas cylinders.
Update 08:25
Crews had dealt with the incident and the cylinders have cooled down.
Sub Officer Dave Purkiss from Grays Fire Station said:
"The owner of the caravan on fire was asleep as the fire broke out, she was woken up by her smoke alarm that her boyfriend had installed just a few weeks ago. The woman in her thirties escaped unharmed from the caravan.
"As a precaution fire crews evacauted residents from six other caravans on the site, crews helped a disabled man from his caravan and led him to safety.
"This incident shows the importance of a working smoke alarm and how they can provide early indication to a fire, giving you time to escape."
The cause of the fire is believed to have been an electrical fault and the caravan has been completely destroyed by the fire.
