A130 - serious road traffic collision

There has been a serious road traffic collision on the A130, at the Rayleigh Spur roundabout this morning (Monday 1 September)

Road closures:

 A1245, towards the A127 and to Sadlers Farm roundabout.

Firefighters were this afternoon called to a fire in a residential property near the Palace Theatre in London Road, Westcliff.

The fire - in the roof space of a flat neighbouring the theatre - was quickly contained by firefighters. 

The Palace Theatre and some neighbouring properties were evacuated as our firefighters extinguished the fire.

Four crews of firefighters worked quickly this evening to stop a garage fire spreading to a house in Horndon-on-the-Hill.

The 10 metre by five metre garage, which was used a workshop, was unfortunately destroyed by the fire, including all of the tools inside.

Crews from Basildon, Rayleigh Weir and Grays were called to the property at 7.50pm and the found the garage 100 percent alight.

Update 5am

Firefighters have been working to put out a garage fire that had spread to two vehicles. 

Two crews will remain at the scene monitoring hotspots. 

An investigation will be carried out to determine the cause of the fire. 

Four crews are currently at the scene of a garage fire in Maypole Road, Wickham Bishops.

If you live in the area, please keep windows and doors closed due to heavy smoke. 

Update midnight 

Crews have extinguished a fire affecting a workshop and two gardens by tackling the fire in sections.

Two crews will remain at the scene dampening the area and monitoring hotspots.

The fire was caused by a bonfire that had spread out of control.

Station Manager Jez Tuckwell, Incident Commander, said: “We’d ask residents to hold off having bonfires at the moment until we’ve had some more rain. While the ground is still so dry, it only takes an ember for a bonfire to spread out of control like this one. 

Four crews - two crews from Essex and two crews from Suffolk - worked alongside a local farmer to put out a field fire in Great Maplestead this afternoon.

A fire in a field had spread to a neighbouring field and crews worked to put the fire out before it spread to farm buildings.

Station Manager Lee Hurst said: “A big thank you to the farmer on scene who acted quickly into the incident to put an effective fire break in which meant we were able to get the fire under control quickly.”

Two acres of woodland have been damaged following a fire in Epping Forest this afternoon.

Crews were called to Warren Hill at just before 1.20pm to deal with a fire in the woods.

Working with the forest rangers, firefighters used beaters, backpack sprayers and hoses to extinguish the fire and stopped it from harming more of the woods.

Station manager Matt Bannon said: “Even though we managed to contain the spread of the fire, it’s such a shame to see the amount of damage that has been caused.