Incident Summary – Night Shift – Sunday 18th October
Time: 17:20 Location: Cold Bath Road, Harrogate
Harrogate crew responded to an automatic fire alarm in a residential premises. This was confirmed to be a false alarm caused by cooking fumes.
Time: 17:23 Location: Bondgate, Ripon
Ripon crew responded to an automatic fire alarm in a residential premises. This was confirmed to be a false alarm caused by cooking fumes.
Time: 17:58 Location: Bootham Row, York
Malton crew who were on standby at York responded to a report of smoke seen in the area. Crews carried out a 360 of the local area but were unable to locate any fire or smoke.
Time: 18:19 Location: Coverham Abbey, Coverham
Leyburn crew responded to a single vehicle road traffic collision and the vehicle had overturned. There were no persons trapped on arrival, crews made the scene safe due to an oil leak using drizzit pads and sand. Incident left with Police.
Time: 18:20 Location: Islebeck Lane, Islebeck
Easingwold crew responded to a report of a fire sighted in the yard of a premises. This was confirmed to be a false alarm of controlled burning with the responsible person in attendance.
Time: 18:42 Location: Lysander Close, York
Malton and Thirsk crew responded to an automatic fire alarm at a retail premises with multiple fire alarm activations. This was confirmed to be a false alarm after inspection.
Time: 19:45 Location: Cleveland Street, Great Ayton
Stokesley crew responded to a report of a fire in a yard that was close to a building. This was confirmed to be a false alarm due to controlled burning with responsible person in attendance. Advice was given.
Time: 20:10 Location: Broughton Road, Skipton
Skipton crew responded to an automatic fire alarm in a residential premises. This was confirmed to be a false alarm caused by shower steam.
Time: 21:14 Location: Burniston
Scarborough assisted ambulance crews with gaining entry to a property after concerns for welfare. Crews were able to access the property using e-hydraulic tools and left the casualty in the safe of hands of paramedics.
Time: 23:03 Location: Water Lane, York
Crews from Acomb, Huntington and Harrogate responded to reports of a kitchen fire with reports of a person still inside the property. On arrival, crews located the occupant and lead them to safety after they were seen in a smoke logged room but still conscious. Paramedics on scene checked the occupant including 3 others. The kitchen sustained significant fire damage with smoke logging to the remainder of the property. Crews used 2 breathing apparatus, 1 hose reel jet to extinguish the fire. The cause is believed to have been items left on a gas hob. A thermal imaging camera was used throughout to check for hotspots and a positive pressure ventilation fan was used to ventilate the property.
Time: 03:47 Location: Ramshill Road, Scarborough
Scarborough responded to an activated fire alarm inside a residential property. After inspection, this was confirmed as a false alarm due to a fault on the system.
Time: 04:15 Location: Fulford Road, York
A crew from Harrogate whilst on standby in York’s area responded to an activated fire alarm inside a residential property. After inspection, this was confirmed as a false alarm. Crews utilised a language tool on a mobile phone to give advice to the occupant who spoke a very limited amount English.
Time: 04:49 Location: Westmoreland, Harrogate
Harrogate and Knaresborough responded to a small fire inside a residential flat after the occupant had fallen asleep with a candle left on top of a ceramic hob. The hob had been on for approximately 5 hours and when the occupant was awoken by their smoke alarm they used a fire blanket to contain the fire. Crews carried out an inspection only and ventilated the property of residual smoke naturally. Advice was given to the occupant in regards to home fire safety.
The incident involving a fire to an industrial unit in Selby which was reported yesterday at 14:24 has been extinguished for sometime and scaled back to only one fire appliance. A crew remained on scene throughout the night hot spotting and carrying out regular inspections to ensure no further fire spread.