This Saturday bring your car along and have it washed in return for a donation to The Fire Fighters Charity, the UK’s leading provider of services that enhance quality of life for serving and retired fire service personnel and their families.
Lee Howell, Chief Fire Officer for Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service said: “Monies raised through national fundraising initiatives provide a real boost to The Fire Fighters Charity. As well as being a fun and popular event the National Car Wash also gives our firefighters the opportunity to share important safety messages with...
An investigation has been launched to determine how the blaze started at Exeter’s Riverside Leisure centre yesterday.
Emergency services worked together to tackle the major incident.
At around 4.20pm on Tuesday 21 February, Devon and Somerset Fire Service (DSFS) alerted police to a major fire within Riverside Leisure Centre, near to the Exe Bridges junction. A number of emergency support vehicles including around 17 fire appliances attended the scene to deal with this incident.
A number of local roads were closed, including Exe Bridges and Alphington Road, to allow...
Ten pumping appliances attened a fire at the Riverside Leisure Centre, Cowick Street, Exeter yesterday.
The blaze was this morning under control and all roads in the area open as usual.
The fire was reported in the first floor sauna, and the health suite was well alight.
Appliances attended from Danes Castle, Middlemoor, Topsham, Exmouth, Crediton, Ottery St Mary, Cullompton, Teignmouth, Bovey Tracey and the aerial appliances from Torquay and Exeter.
Twenty people were removed from the swimming pool and the leisure centre was also evacuated.
Ten pumping appliances are attending a fire at the Riverside Leisure Centre, Cowick Street, Exeter.
The fire was reported in the first floor sauna, and the health suite was confirmed as well alight.
Appliances are attending from Danes Castle, Middlemoor, Topsham, Exmouth, Crediton, Ottery St Mary, Cullompton, Teignmouth, Bovey Tracey and the aerial appliances from Torquay and Exeter.
There is a lot of smoke from the building. Twenty people were removed from the swimming pool and the leisure centre has been evacuated.
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service remind you to make sure your chimneys are safe and clean as possible, especially if you own a thatched property. Last year the fire service attended a total of 26 thatched fires of these, 23 were chimney fires and three were thatch roof fires.
According to English Heritage the number of thatched properties listed in Devon and Somerset is 5,916.
Marc House, Community Safety Prevention Manager said: “Fire in a thatched roof is difficult to detect and once started is difficult to control. Once a fire has taken hold within a roof...
The recruitment process to apply for wholetime firefighter posts with Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service opened today (16 January).
It is the first time the Service has recruited for wholetime firefighters in eight years and applicants will have a week to register, with the initial process closing at midday on Monday 23 January.
The role of a firefighter has changed dramatically, even in recent years, with so much more to the role than putting out fires.
Assistant Chief Fire Officer Glenn Askew said: “We expect so much more of our firefighters in terms...
The Fire Service were called to reports of a property fire in St Pauls Road, Honiton.
Fire Control mobilised two appliances from Honiton together with one appliance from Sidmouth, .
Upon arrival crews confirmed there to be a fire in a first floor flat, crews got to work using four breathing apparatus, one hose reel jet, thermal image camera and positive pressure ventilation to clear the smoke from the building. All occupants have been accounted for.
The cause of fire is believed to be deliberate ignition, 20% of flat damaged by fire and 80% damaged by smoke....
