Incident Summary – Day Shift, Sunday 27th April

Published 27th Apr 2025

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: 09.29   Location: York

Crew from Acomb responded to a report of an automatic fire alarm activation in a residential premises.  This was found to be a false alarm due to a faulty call point.

Time:  10.04  Location: Selby 

Crews from Selby responded to a report of smoke sighted in a premises.  This was found to be a smoke cloak that had been activated due to a burglar alarm.

Time:  11.57  Location: Whitby 

Crew from Whitby attended a report of a person that had accidentally got locked into a vehicle. Crews used glass management tool to release the person from the vehicle.

Time:  11.58  Location: Summerbridge

Crews from Ripon responded to a report of a fire in a wooded area. The fire was found to be deep seated and crews used 1 hose reel jet, lance, thermal image camera, turfer and winch, reciprocating saw and small tools to extinguish.

Time:  13.33  Location: York

The Crew from York responded to a report of a fire to a bin.  Crews used buckets of water to extinguish the fire.

Time: 13.56   Location:  Acomb

Crews from Acomb and York responded to an automatic fire alarm activation in a residential premises.  This was a false alarm due to burnt cooking.