Forest fire, bin wagon blaze and hole rescue lead busy day for Yorkshire coast firefighters
Crews from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (NYFRS)and Humberside Fire Service were kept busy throughout Thursday, September 24, responding to a series of incidents across the Yorkshire coast ranging from woodland blazes to a dramatic rescue.
At 10:02 AM, Humberside Fire Service was called to South Sea Road in Flamborough, where an elderly man had fallen into a deep hole near a footpath. Crews successfully rescued the casualty using manual handling before leaving him in the care of paramedics.
At 11:16 AM, a Scarborough crew attended Lady Graces Ride in Scarborough to extinguish an unattended bonfire using one hose reel jet.
Early in the afternoon at 1:26 PM, a Scarborough crew was alerted by Forestry England to an area of smouldering ground in Broxa Forest. Firefighters located the fire on foot and worked to extinguish the flames using backpack sprayers and small tools.
Just minutes later at 1:41 PM, crews from Whitby and Lythe were deployed to Drake Close in Whitby after a fire broke out inside a bin wagon. The wagon’s contents were emptied onto the road so firefighters could inspect the load using a thermal imaging camera. Crews remained on site until council personnel arrived for the clean-up, then escorted the wagon back to its depot as a precaution.
At 3:45 PM, Humberside Fire Service attended Flamborough Road in Bempton to put out a small rubbish fire using beaters.
The busy day concluded at 8:06 PM when North Yorkshire's Filey crew was mobilised to a residential property on Wrangham Drive in Hunmanby following reports of a dishwasher fire. The fire was out on arrival, and crews used positive pressure ventilation to clear smoke from the property.