Incident Summary – Night Shift 9th November

Time: 17.12  Location:  Station Road, Church Fenton

A crew from Tadcaster attended a late fire call with reports of smoke coming from a tumble dryer. On arrival of the crews the tumble dryer had already been removed from the house.  Crews carried out a thermal scan to ensure no fire remained in the property.

Time: 17.36  Location: Horton in Ribblesdale

A crew from Bentham responded to a report of fire sighted in the open from a distance.  Crews located the fire and gave advice to the responsible persons to let the fire service know prior to carrying out a controlled burn.

Time: 17.47  Location:  Market Place, Cawood

A crew from Selby responded to a report of a person who had become locked into a car.  On arrival no Fire Service action was required and the spare key was on route.

Time: 19.08  Location: Helwith Bridge

A crew from Bentham came across a fire in the open while travelling back to station following an earlier incident. This was found to be a false alarm due to control burning and crews liaised with the land owner.

Time: 19.34   Location: Carleton Road, Skipton 

Skipton crews were mobilised to reports of smoke coming out of a window. Crews carried out an external investigation including a thermal scan and found no signs of fire.

Time: 22.43  Location: Coggan Close, York

A crew from York responded to a request to assist Ambulance crews to extricate a casualty from a property into a waiting ambulance.  Crews used Ambulance equipment and crew power to assist.

Time: 00.38  Location: Scholla Lane, Northallerton

A crew from Northallerton responded to a request to assist Ambulance crews to gain access to a premises due to welfare concerns for the occupant. Crews were able to alert the occupant to open the door, crews then left the occupant in the care of paramedics on scene.

Time: 02.09  Location:  Cranbrook Road, York

A crew from Acomb responded to a request to gain access to a property due to concerns for the occupants welfare. On arrival Ambulance had already gained access to the property and no Fire Service action was required.

Time: 03.49  Location: Kirkgate, Settle 

Settle crew were mobilised to assist paramedics gain entry to a property due to welfare concerns for the occupant. Crews safely gained access and left the occupant in the care of the paramedics.

Crews from Richmond, Knaresborough, Scarborough (X2) and Acomb also attended reports of automatic fire alarm activations.  After inspection these were found to be false alarms.