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: 09-09-2010
Time: 07:30
Details: Update - 07:30hrs - Thursday
Address: No Incidents of Note
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 19563
Date: 08-09-2010
Time: 17:31
Details: Kitchen Fire
Address: Parkmeade, Loughton
Attendance: 2 x Loughton
Firefighters tackled a fire in the kitchen of a home. Using one dry powder extinguisher and wearing two sets of breathing apparatus they had extinguished the fire by 17:59. They also used a positive pressure ventilation fan to clear smoke from the property. -
Details/ImagesIncident No: 19554
Date: 08-09-2010
Time: 15:44
Details: Dog in pipe - with badger
Address: Coal End Lane, Sewards End, Saffron Walden
Attendance: 2 x Saffron Walden, 1 x USAR
Firefighters are working to release a Jack Russell dog which has become trapped in an underground pipe.
Crews were initially unable to find the dog, and then found it in the company of a badger they didn't previously know was there.
A team from the service's Urban Search and Rescue Team are going to assist crews in locating the exact whereabouts of the Jack Russell and assist in digging out.
Update Firefighters released the dog by 19:54hrs. Crews used USAR listening equipment to locate it and hand tools to excavate it.
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Details/ImagesIncident No: 19517
Date: 08-09-2010
Time: 07:19
Details: Factory Fire
Address: Byronstone Road, Waltham Abbey
Attendance: 1 x Waltham Abbey, 1 x Loughton, 1 x Potters Bar (Herts), 2 x Hertford (Herts), 1 x Rickman (Herts), 1 x Stevenage ALP (Herts), 1 x Watford ALP (Herts)
Firefighters are tackling a large scale fire in a single storey factory building measuring 100 metres by 100 metres. The fire involves 2,000 litres of bio-diesel.
Crews are using two Aerial Ladder Platforms and eight hoses to tackle the fire.
The fire is on Hertfordshire Fire Service's Fire Ground, although Essex crews made the initial attendance. Further updates will not be available here as this is a Herts incident.
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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.
