Busy Glasgow Fair holiday weekend

An extremely busy Glasgow Fair holiday weekend for SFR with a range of incidents.

An extremely busy Glasgow Fair holiday weekend for Strathclyde Fire & Rescue with a variety of different incidents. Over the Friday to Monday period we handled 541 calls consisting of 164 fires, 253 false alarms and 66 special services which includes 23 calls on Sunday with regards to incidents of flooding.

A quick round up of the incidents is noted below:

• At 10.17am, crews from Cowcaddens and Maryhill attended an incident in a multi storey flat in Shaftesbury Street. The fire was in a third floor flat and a male casualty was trapped in his bedroom. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze and released the trapped casualty.
• Just before 11am on Friday morning, crews from Cumbernauld were called to an incident at Cumbernauld Airfield where a helicopter had come off the runway and flipped on its side. No one was trapped in the aircraft and one male casualty was taken to Monklands General Hospital to be treated for his injuries.
• At 3.43pm, crews from Ayr were dispatched to a local shop where a refrigerator gas pipe was leaking, causing fumes to be dissipated throughout the store. Strathclyde Fire & Rescues Environmental Protection Unit was also at the scene to carry out atmospheric monitoring and firefighters used tactical ventilation fans to return the oxygen levels to normal.
• On Friday afternoon, at 3.45pm several calls were made to our Operations Control Centre in Johnstone advising of a fire in the Tinto School on the Southside of Glasgow. Crews from Pollok, Castlemilk and Calton attended and used mains jets to extinguish the blaze.
• On Saturday morning, crews in Renfrewshire had a couple of road traffic incident to deal with. The first, attended by crews from Johnstone and Paisley, was at 10.42am and happened on the A737. A private vehicle had left the road and travelled down an embankment. Thankfully no one was trapped in the vehicle however a male casualty was taken to hospital by the attending ambulance crew. About 20 minutes later, crews from Clydebank and Renfrew were called to another road traffic incident, this time in Erskine. A car had left the road and travelled approximately ten feet down an embankment. One female casualty was rescued by firefighters using heavy duty cutting equipment before being transported by ambulance to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.
• Just before 8pm, crews from Polmadie attended a flat fire on Calder Street where it was reported that someone was trapped in the property. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus fought the fire and requested an ambulance for one male casualty suffering from smoke inhalation The casualty was later transferred to Glasgow's Royal Infirmary. 
• At 9.12pm, crews from Coatbridge attended a fire where it had been reported that three people were trapped on the fourth floor of a block of flats in Chapelhall. Fire crews wearing breathing apparatus  tackled the blaze and then used positive pressure ventilation fans to help clear the smoke from the building.
• On Sunday at 2pm, crews from Hamilton attended a house fire in the Church Street area of the town. The fire was in a bedroom of a ground floor flat within a terraced block. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus carried out a search and rescue of the property before extinguishing the blaze. One elderly female casualty was removed to Wishaw General Hospital by paramedics.
• Early on Monday morning, crews from Ayr attended an road traffic collision on the B7024 between Ayr and Maybole where a car had overturned in a ditch trapping one casualty. The female casualty was attended to by ambulance crews whilst firefighters used hydraulic cutting and spreading equipment to free her from the wreckage. She was then transferred to Ayr Hospital by ambulance.
• On Monday evening, firefighters from Clarkston and Barrhead were called to a house fire in Newton Mearns. The fire was in the kitchen of a second floor flat. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus extinguished the fire and administered oxygen therapy to one male casualty before he was transferred to the Victoria Infirmary for a precautionary check up.