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Police (General)

Two Kent Police Skoda Octavia estates. The car…



Two Kent Police Skoda Octavia estates. The car on the left is in normal daylight and the car on the right is exposed by the flash. The benefits of fitting day-glow and highly-reflective material to the bodywork means it is very noticeable in all lighting conditions.

Military Fire

28 AG 00 RAF Fire and Rescue Service TACR1

28 AG 00
RAF Fire and Rescue Service
TACR1
The TACR1 came into service in 1972 and was the beginning of a new generation of rescue tender for the RAF. It superseded the ACRT (Dry Powder) and TACT (Old type Foam). The TACR1 carried a new fire fighting media which was AFFF (Aqueous Film Forming Foam) which was pre-mixed in the tank. It also carried an EPCO Hydraulic Rescue kit and a Pneumatic powered ‘Ripper Gun’. It was capable of acting in an unsupported roll on advanced airfields operating with the HARRIER aircraft with a crew of three, but would also act as the rescue truck along with major foams trucks on large Crash Lines. With the requirement for a crew of three and only a standard cab, a seating position was created at the rear of the vehicle for the third crew member whose only communication to the cab was via a voice tube. Not always popular with crew members when assigned to this vehicle!!! This vehicle 28 AG 00 on display is the very first that was supplied to the RAF Fire Service. As well as carrying out Crash Line duties 28 AG 00 was deployed in 1977 to St. George’s Barracks in Sutton Coalfield dring the National Fireman’s Strike, (Operation Burbury). The crews acted as a B.A. team in support of 42 Marine Commando and attended some 230 incidents in a 58 day period. It saw service at RAF units Manston, Newton and Swinderby before being sold at the end of its service. It was recovered from Lydden Motor Race Circuit in Kent where it had been used as fire and rescue truck. During its extensive restoration it revealed eight layers of paint which included red, green and Day-Glo. Seen at the Museum of RAF Firefighting.

Fire (General)

In 2014 North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue decided to close

In 2014 North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue decided to close its central York fire station on Clifford Street and build a new one on nearby Kent Street. These photographs show the site prior to development, the work in progress building the new station and finally the finished station. It officially opened in July 2014 at a cost of £2.3m.

About Us

About Us
UK Emergency Vehicles was created by Richard Thompson in February 1999. It was inspired by the book ‘Emergency Service Vehicles of the UK’ by Clive Sturman (Ian Allan Publishing 1980, ISBN 0711010013) and by James ‘Jimbo’ Farley’s website on Kent Police vehicles.

UK Emergency Vehicles launched at the domain www.ukemergency.8m.com hosted in the United States, before moving to UK-based servers as www.ukemergency.f9.co.uk. Since 2006 we have had our current web address of www.ukemergency.co.uk and moved to a business-class web server. The supplementary domain of www.ukemergency.com was acquired in 2009 which, along with the two old addresses, redirects viewers to the .co.uk address.

UKev celebrated 10 years online in February 2009 with a month-long series of free competitions and prizes. We were very proud to reach one million visitors to the homepage in August 2010.

Thanks go to all of the emergency services and companies that have permitted photography of their vehicles. Great appreciation is also sent to our network of photographers and other donors who have submitted images. We enjoy reading the great number of emails sent in with comments and suggestions but apologise that not all of them can be replied to.

Photographs on this website are largely taken by in-house photographers. A small selection of donated images is also show. We greatly appreciate viewers sending in their own photographs and this has helped broaden the range of vehicle shown. It is our policy not to state the photographer on donated images as many people wish to remain anonymous and it detracts from the key notes about the vehicles. Submitting images to us means that you have permission from the photograph’s owner to do so and are allowing us unrestricted use of the image for use on the website or to promote the website. If you believe a photograph you own is being shown without permission please email us and we will resolve the matter with urgency.

The face of our website has evolved over the years…

Screenshot of UKev Homepage from 1999

Screenshot of UKev Homepage from 2003

Screenshot of UKev Homepage from 2006

Screenshot of UKev Homepage from 2013

Screenshot of Jimbo’s Homepage from 1999

Blood Service

LD58 DNO A Yamaha FJR that is used as a special blood bike to replenish sticks carried …



LD58 DNO A Yamaha FJR that is used as a special blood bike to replenish sticks carried by the Kent Air Ambulance. It is the first bike of its type and is an ex-police bike that is now operated by SERV Kent. The bike goes to the air base each night to swap unused blood for fresh.



The side of the bike. The bike is also able to replenish the air ambulance at an emergency scene if required.



The rear of the FJR. The bike is fitted with blue lights and siren and is registered as an emergency vehicle and the blue lights are used by trained, experienced riders. Note the covert blue lights in the indicator clusters rather than a traditional light pole fitted to the pannier.

Police (General)

At the scene of a road traffic collision…



At the scene of a road traffic collision is a silver police Peugeot, partly obscured by an overturned BMW which has hit a Ford Focus.



Y714 CKN A closer look at the front of the Kent Police Peugeot 406.



The opposing view of the collision scene, including the rear view of the above 406. These photos were taken in the village of Denton, on the A260 Folkestone to Canterbury Road, near Canterbury in Kent.

Caption Corner

Caption Corner 5

 

Here are a selection of reader captions:

Well I’m not getting it, Who’s got the least service? – DH
You two, don’t tell me you’ve gone and parked the squad car here!!! – MRP
Ladies First! – GM
The new recruits initiation test took a menacing turn! – KL
No I can’t see Geoff’s hat either…maybe it has sunk by now…? – NS
Right, one more time, we were passing the keys, when……. – M
Hmmmm, shell we go to McDonalds…. or Kentucky….. or the good old greasy spoon? –  SL
To get wedged in there he must have been very thin! – D
Now how do explain to Sarg that the car ended up in here?! – S
Just wait, if goes past the line its the other force’s problem! – CS
A member of the public reported an unusual sight in the local canal. Police are looking into it! – SO
Are you sure this is where the sat nav said the new station was?! – TC

We also go an entry in the form of an image, thanks Tommy!