Incident Summary Day Shift Monday 21st September

Time: 08:17 Location: York

Crews from Tadcaster and Acomb responded to reports of a fire at a residential premises. This was a false alarm caused by smoke from vaping or aerosol spray. No action required.

Time: 11:17  Location: Staxton

Crew from Scarborough responded to reports of a fire to a tractor. On arrival crews used 1 hose reel jet and 1 breathing apparatus to extinguish and dampen down. The fire was confined to the engine compartment only.

Time: 12:03  Location: Harrogate

Crew from Harrogate responded to reports of 2 people stuck in a broken down lift. Crew isolated the power which released the lift doors before using lift keys to lower the car and release the occupants.

Time: 12:39 Location: York

Crew from Acomb assisted a lift engineer to release 4 people from a broken down lift.

Time: 13:23  Location: Scarborough

Crew from Scarborough responded to reports of a lorry smoking in a layby. This was a false alarm caused by overheating.

Time: 14:46  Location: Austwick

Crew from Bentham were mobilised to reports of a fire in woodland. This was a false alarm caused by controlled burning.

Time:16:49 Location: Stockton on the Forest

Crew from York responded to reports of a 3 vehicle road traffic collision where one vehicle was leaking fluid on the road. All occupants were out on arrival of crews and no injuries reported.  Crew carried out scene safety only.

 

During the day crews from Richmond, York and Knaresborough responded to automatic fire alarm activations. These resulted in false alarms.