Incident Summary – Night shift, Tuesday 6th August 2024
To ensure that people are not identifiable from our incident round-up, we will no longer be providing street names for smaller towns and villages, where incidents have occurred.
Time: 18:03 Location: Skipton
A crew from Skipton responded to a report of a fire in the open. Crews extinguished the fire using knapsack sprayers.
Time: 18:05 Location: South Milford
Crews from Tadcaster along with colleagues from Garforth responded to a report of a single vehicle RTC in which a HGV had left the road. All occupants were out of the vehicle on arrival of fire crews. The vehicle was made safe and the incident was left with the police for recovery.
Time: 20:12 Location: York
A crew from York responded to a report of an alarm activation that was found to be a false alarm due to a faulty detector.
Time: 20:33 Location: York
A crew from Acomb responded to a report of an alarm activation that was found to be a false alarm due to an unknown cause.
Time: 21:17 Location: Harrogate
A crew from Harrogate responded to a report of a fire in a small public waste bin. The fire had been extinguished prior to the arrival of fire crews by a member of public using bottled water. Crews used 1 hose reel to dampen down any remaining hot spots.
Time: 21:19 Location: Brotherton
A crew from Selby along with colleagues from Pontefract and Castleford responded to a report of a boat on fire. Crews extinguished the fire that resulted in the boat 100% fire damaged.
Time: 21:25 Location: Scarborough
Crews from Scarborough responded to a report of a baler on fire. Crews extinguished the fire and stood by whilst the farmer removed the remains of a bale from the machinery. Crews dampened the machinery and surrounding area down before giving advice to the responsible person.
Time: 21:40 Location: York
A crew from York responded to a report of a fire in the open. Crews located the small fire consisting of 2 wooden pallets and extinguished it using knapsack sprayers and small tools.
Time: 02:26 Location: Ribblehead Viaduct
Crew were mobilised to a report of a SOS message received from a phone in this location. After a thorough search it was found to be an accidental SOS sent by a campers phone.
Time: 02:29 Location: Great Ayton
A crew from Stokesley responded to a report of an alarm activation that was found to be a false alarm due to an unknown cause.
Time: 02:31 Location: York
Crew were mobilised to a call from an occupier stating that their fire alarm was sounding. This was a fire caused by smoking materials, out on arrival.