A weekend of house fires

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Yet another busy weekend for our firefighters with over 300 incidents to attend. The incidents include 120 fires, 164 false alarms and 28 special services.

Read a snapshot of the weekends incident below:

Late on Friday night crews from Greenock attended a house fire in the town. One male casualty was trapped in the property and had to be rescued by firefighters.  SFR crews administered oxygen therapy before the casualty was transferred to Inverclyde Hospital.

Just after midnight, firefighters from Dumbarton attended a fire in Milton where they administered oxygen to the two casualties.

Another fire, this time early on Saturday morning in the Pollok area on the south side of Glasgow. On arrival, crews found the top floor flat of a 3 storey tenement to be well alight. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued one male casualty who was taken to the Southern General suffering from burns and smoke inhalation.

At 6pm on Saturday crews from Ayr rushed to a fire in a local block of flats. The well developed fire was on the first floor of a 3 storey tenement building. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus fought the flames using hose reel jets. Three casualties had managed to escape the fire prior to the arrival of the fire service however firefighters then rescued a further 3 casualties from the flat above the fire. Crews remained in attendance for a considerable time, searching the remaining flats in the block to ensure everyone was safe and accounted for.

At 7.16pm, crews from Motherwell were called to the scene of a road traffic collision in Wishaw. The collision involved two cars, one of which had a trapped male passenger. Firefighters used hydraulic cutting equipment to free the casualty before he was transferred to Wishaw General. A further two casualties were also taken to hospital for precautionary checkups.

At 9.29pm on Sunday night, crews from Ayr rescued an adult and child from a burning flat in the town. Paramedics on the scene gave both casualties a precautionary check up.   

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