Incident Summary – Night Shift 9th October

Time: 20.08  Location:  Lindsey Avenue, York

A crew responded to a report of a smoke alarm sounding at a premises under a residential flat.  Crews were unable to gain access to boarded up premises but carried out a full external investigation with a thermal imaging camera and no heat was found.  The alarm is believed to be a burglar alarm sounding.

Time: 21.44  Location:  Gladstone Road, Scarborough

A crew from Scarborough responded to a request from Ambulance to gain entry to a property due to concerns for the welfare of the occupant.  Police had already gained entry to the property on arrival of the crews and the address was unoccupied.

Time: 04.32  Location:  Scarborough

2 Crews from Scarborough responded to a report of a smell of gas in a a property.  On arrival crews found no smell of gas in the property but isolated the gas inside the property and the boiler as a precaution.  Occupant was left in hands of Ambulance to be checked over.

Time: 06.45  Location:  Valley Road, Harrogate

A crew from Harrogate responded to a fire to a bin at the back of some properties.  On arrival of the crews a wheelie bin was well alight and crews used 1 knapsack sprayer to extinguish the fire.

Crews from York (x2), Harrogate and Acomb also attended automatic fire alarm activations.  After investigation these were found to be false alarms.