Incident Summary – Day Shift, Tuesday 17th December

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: 07.26   Location: York

Crews from Acomb, Tadcaster and York responded to a 5 vehicle road traffic collision. Crews made the vehicles safe and assessed the passengers of the vehicles.

Time: 10.33   Location:  Selby

The crew from Selby responded to a report of a smell of gas in a residential premises.  This was found to be a false alarm.

Time:  10.41  Location: Harrogate

The crews from Harrogate and Knaresborough responded to reports of an automatic fire alarm in a residential building where the occupants were not responding to the alarm monitoring centre.  This was found to be a false alarm due to an engineer testing the system.

Time: 13.02   Location:  Scarborough

A crew from Scarborough responded to the activation of an automatic fire alarm at a premises.  This was found to be an accidental activation of the system during a fire drill.

Time:  13.40  Location:  Ripon

Crew from Ripon responded to an automatic fire alarm activation. This was found to be a false alarm and crew gave advice to the responsible person on-site.

Time: 14.08   Location: York

Crews from York, Huntington and Acomb responded to reports of a fire in a residential dwelling.  Crews used 6 Breathing Apparatus, 1 main jet and 2 hose reel jets to extinguish the fire.

Time:  14.46  Location: Hovingham

Our colleagues in the Ambulance service requested our assistance to extricate a patient for medical reasons.

Time: 14.52   Location: Selby

The crew from Selby attended a report of a chimney fire at a residential property.  This was a false alarm due to blow back from a coal fueled back burner.

Time: 16.25  Location: Whitby

The crew from Whitby responded to an activation of an automatic fire alarm at a residential premises.  This was found to be a false alarm caused by dust in a detector head.