North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service attend two fires in Scarborough and Whitby
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service have attended two incidents on the Yorkshire coast in the last 24 hours.
The first incident occurred at 2:56pm yesterday (August 18) at Holme Hill, Eastfield. Crews from Scarborough and Filey responded to a report of a two vehicle road traffic collision.
Crews used cutters and spreaders to release one casualty and transferred them from the vehicle into the care of ambulance crews.
The team in attendance then made the vehicles safe and left the incident in the hands of the police and ambulance crews. The second incident occurred at 6:14am this morning (August 19) on Larpool Lane, Whitby Crews attended following report of a fire within a commercial building. The fire was confirmed and was caused by an electrical appliance. It was extinguished using one hose reel jet and crews cleared smoke using a positive pressure ventilation fan, then gave advice to the people at the scene.