Category: Fire

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K412 EET South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Mercedes Benz / Saxon

K412 EET
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
Mercedes Benz / Saxon
Still part of the fleet in 2016, despite being new in 1993. This appliance, along with sister vehicle K413 EET are both non-operational vehicles used for youth engagement work such as fire cadets and LIFE/ARC courses. The courses run for about a week at stations across South Yorkshire so the appliance moves around regularly.

Neither vehicle has any radio communication equipment or Mobile Data Terminals installed. They’ve been off front-line duties for several years and 4 further sister vehicles were disposed of a number of years prior to this photo.

Fire

J104999 States of Jersey FRS MAN / Angloco

J104999
States of Jersey FRS
MAN / Angloco
Aerial ladder platform being used to practice rescuing people from height but also from below ground level by declining the ladder down into the harbour

Fire > In Action

York Floods (2015)

York Floods (2015)

The following vehicles were seen in York in December 2015 during the flooding response. The River Foss broke its banks after a flood barrier was lifted by the Environment Agency. Unprecedented levels of water breached the pumping control room of the barrier.

Services from out-of-town included: Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, Northumberland and Durham and Darlington.

Fire > In Action

BA Training Exercise (2016)

BA Training Exercise (2016)

Saturday 2 April saw firefighters from across North Yorkshire descend on York for a training exercise. A disused university accommodation block was filled with smoke and dummies to simulate a major fire at a high risk dwelling.

Crews arrived in their appliances from York, Acomb, Huntington, Easingwold, Tadcaster, Northallerton and Ripon. This turnout was supplemented by Tadcaster’s Rescue Unit and the brigade incident command unit form Northallerton. The command unit, Volvo N765 YEF, has been recently refitted inside and this was one of the first outings for it. Crews worked with breathing apparatus to search the property while fire service observers charted their progress.

This exercise allowed new protocols to be evaluated including use of an oxygen management team. Station Manager Pete Gregory concluded that “The exercise in general was a success and the objectives were achieved, with some valuable learning in the process.”

Ambulance / Fire

YX15 DYU Lincolnshire FRS Fiat Ducato Fire and Rescue

YX15 DYU
Lincolnshire FRS
Fiat Ducato
Fire and Rescue Ambulance. This is an ambulance that is manned by firefighters and is used when it is much closer to an incident than a regular ambulance. If required, the patient can be transported to hospital in it or alternatively be handed over to the local ambulance service. This is the first of a wave of fire-ambulance vehicles that began appearing in the UK from 2015.

Fire

J86020 States of Jersey FRS Amdac Carmichael Mitsubishi Fuso

J86020
States of Jersey FRS
Amdac Carmichael Mitsubishi Fuso Canter rescue tender
This small fire appliance is just 6m long and 2m wide and is powered by a 3-lire engine. The cab can carry just two firefighters. All of the scene and emergency lighting around the vehicle are LEDs and it has full CCTV coverage too. The images show a closer look at the front winch and the red and blue flashing lights that are legal in Jersey but not in the UK.

Fire > In Action

Bus Fire (2015)

Bus Fire (2015)

Here firefighters attend to a bus fire. The fire started in the (rear) engine bay of an electric bus. After the initial fire was extinguished, damping down continued. A recovery truck was sued to lift the rear so firefighters could continue to spray water onto the underside of the engine bay.

All passengers were quickly evacuated from the bus by the quick-thinking driver and nobody was injured.