Fire

Firefighters will give demos on how they handle road traffic collisions, put out oil fires and conduct a smoke house search and rescue.

Team of 22 set off on 180-mile challenge at 5am on Sunday June 30, with a brief stop at Bishop’s Stortford fire station, and finished just after 9pm.

Police, fire and paramedics responded to an upturned, submerged car in the River Lea on a training exercise that ensures readiness for such scenarios

Addition was prompted by ‘major incident’ in summer of 2022 when brigade dealt with three field fires and a combine harvester fire on a single day.

Teenager Joseph Manchett captured the moment the 301 service to Stortford burst into flames while en route through Quendon

Jonathan Ash-Edwards said: “We will have to see what is said by the Government... about any future policy.”

The B1383 Cambridge Road through Quendon is currently closed after the 301 A2B service to Bishop’s Stortford caught fire

Diesel BMW was travelling along B1256 at Takeley Street on Friday afternoon (June 14) when sparks and flames appeared.

Morris Bright, county councillor responsible for Herts Fire and Rescue Service, was speaking 19 days after police and crime commissioner election.

Labour took second place behind Roger Hirst with the Liberal Democrats third and the English Democrats last in the four-horse race.

The Axe & Compasses at Arkesden won for the way it has bounced back after an electrical fire on Mother’s Day 2022.

Keegan Johnson received the award from Essex’s Chief Fire Officer after helping a 17-year-old girl with a heavily bleeding hand in Stansted.

Dane North, an on-call firefighter at Newport, got an alert on the Good Sam app for a 71-year-old man in cardiac arrest in Saffron Walden.

Simon Lincoln joined Sawbridgeworth fire station in Station Road as a retained firefighter in 2004 and eventually rose to the rank of watch commander.

Incidents in Essex caused by vapes and e-cigarettes jumped from two in 2021 and in 2022 to seven in 2023.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service investigation reveals Tuesday’s fire at SGA Technologies’ unit on Shire Hill started accidentally.

Six fire crews are battling the blaze on Shire Hill and residents are advised to keep doors and windows shut and avoid the area.

Fire and rescue crews, paramedics and police were called to the scene, near the footbridge by Chinese restaurant The Rivermill, soon after 1.30am.

Firefighters Morrison and Carter are part of a now 15-strong crew who respond to fires and road traffic collisions in the area.

A man in his 60s was stuck in his car after driving into 3ft deep floodwater in Watermill Lane near Stansted on Friday evening.