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29th June 2008 |
CAR DRIVER CUT FREE AFTER M50 CRASH Crews from Ledbury and Upton on Severn used airbags and blocks to stabilise a car in an hour long operation to release the driver of a car following a road traffic collision on the eastbound carriageway between junctions one and two of the M50 on Sunday evening June 29.The casualty was airlifted to hospital by the Air Ambulance. |
27th June 2008 |
ROOF FALL CASUALTY LOWERED TO SAFETY BY LINE RESCUE TEAM A man, who fell 13 feet from a bedroom window onto a flat roof at a property in Bath Road, Worcester, at midday on Friday June 27, was lowered to the ground by the line rescue team from Malvern.The man, who suffered spinal injuries, was taken to hospital by the ambulance service.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER IN OVERTURNED CANOE RESCUE A woman and her 12 year old daughter were thrown from their canoe into the fast flowing River Wye at Welsh Bicknor, Goodrich. Crews from Ross on Wye, Whitchurch and Coleford, Glos, and the air ambulance were mobilised at 16.31 hours on Friday June 27. Both mother and daughter managed to get to safety themselves. |
25th June 2008
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SPARK FROM BONFIRE DAMAGES TWO HOMES A spark from a garden bonfire caused rapid fire to spread through a wooden framed conservatory into the roofs of two houses in Homestead Avenue, Wardon Villages, Worcester at mid morning on Wednesday June 25. Crews from Worcester, Droitwich and Bromsgrove took three hours to extinguish the blaze.Two adults received attention from paramedics at the scene for smoke inhalation. No was was injured. Crews later assisted housholders in salvage operations, that included family treasures and memorabillia.
TWO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM SINKING BOAT A man and woman from Bromsgrove were rescued by boat crews from Evesham and Worcester from their cabin cruiser as it sank in the River Avon near Charlton on Wednesday June 25. The vessel may have been damaged beneath the waterline in a collision with a narrow boat as both vessels were together in the lock. |
23rd June 2008 |
TWO PEOPLE ESCAPE KITCHEN FIRE A man and woman received hospital treatment for smoke inhalation following a chip pan fire that severely damaged the kitchen of their home in Offmore Road, Kidderminster.Two crews from Kidderminster attended at 01.40 hours on Monday June 23. The man woke up having smelt smoke and extinguished the fire with bowls of water. The kitchen was heavily smoke logged.There was no working smoke alarm in the property. An alarm had been purchased but had not been fitted. |
16th June 2008 |
Service Publishes Latest Integrated Risk Management Plan
Opinions Sought on Fire Service Plan
People across Herefordshire and Worcestershire are being urged to have their say on the way the Fire Service is set to run over the next few years.During the Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Authority meeting held on June 16, Members heard how its Fire Service intends to improve community safety and remain efficient. Its Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) sets out a broad range of priorities which will be delivered over a three year period.Chief Fire Officer Paul Hayden said: “These proposals have been designed as a ‘balance package’ of measures, meeting both our ambitions to improve community safety whilst meeting the financial realities we face. We know that we have to be efficient following our disappointing government budget settlement this year and our proposals suggest ways in which we can make savings without impacting community safety. However, there are areas in which we need to spend even more money than before, and this money also needs to be found through efficiencies. This balanced package therefore contains proposals for an additional £100k investment in crucial Firefighter training.”
Brigadier Peter Jones, Chairman of the Fire Authority, said: “These are only draft proposals at this stage and that it is why it’s vital to gauge the opinions of our communities and we will amend this plan if necessary following the consultation responses we receive.”
The plan details a number of initial objectives for 2009/10. These include:
- Adopting a new proposed response standard for fires in buildings and maintain current standards for Road Traffic Collisions - this objective seeks to maintain current standards in urban areas but improve the level of service in our most rural areas.
- Reducing the Firefighter establishment by 12 posts - that is a reduction of one post from each watch at Redditch, Bromsgrove and Kidderminster, resulting in efficiencies of approximately £420,000 – we are not proposing change to the number of fire fighters who ride on fire appliances. We currently employ eight people on each watch at these stations to ensure that five are available after leave and sickness. Our proposal to reduce this to seven people employed to ensure we have five available would bring us back in line with other stations across the UK.
- Streamlining back office services to achieve efficiencies of approximately £200,000
- Review arrangements for the management of leave and improve the management of sickness absence to support the reduction of operational posts.
- Make an investment of £100k to support the cost of cover of arrangements to enable the release of staff for critical training.
- Continue to examine further opportunities to deliver efficiency savings and service improvements – including collaboration/combination with another Fire and Rescue Authority.
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11th June 2008 |
Woman Led to Safety from Redditch House Fire
A woman was led to safety by a neighbour from a fire at her home in Walkwood, Redditch on Wednesday afternoon June 11.Three crews from Redditch carried out a search of the property on arrival and extinguished the small fire in a bedroom. The property was smoke logged and the woman was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. |
10th June 2008 |
Twenty Breathing Apparatus Sets Used in Farm House Fire
Six teams used 20 BA sets when they successfully stopped a fire from causing severe damage to a 200 year old farm house at Hillhampton Lane, Little Witley,in a two hour fifty minute operation on Tuesday June 10. The first and second floors of the property, which was unoccupied at the time, were badly damaged by fire and smoke.The fire is believed to have started in an airing cupboard as a result of an electrical fault involving an imersion heater. Crews from Stourport, Kidderminster, Worcester, Droitwich and the water carrier from Evesham attended. |
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