Incident round up 29th July

SFR firefighters making our communities safe places to live, work and visit.  

In addition to the partial building collapse incident in the south side of Glasgow yesterday, our firefighters were kept busy with a total of 113 incidents across Strathclyde including a number of road traffic collisions.

Yesterday afternoon at 2.21pm crews from Port Glasgow, Greenock and Clydebank Community Fire Stations attended a road traffic collision on Glasgow Road in Port Glasgow. The incident involved a private car and a bus and on arrival at the scene, firefighters discovered that the male driver of the car was trapped in his vehicle. Firefighters used heavy duty cutting equipment to free the trapped driver who was then taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital.

In addition to the trapped driver, paramedics also treated a male who had suffered from a n asthma attack at the scene as well as a number of other casualties who were on the bus. In total there were 12 casualties at this incident, with 11 of them being transferred by ambulance to Inverclyde Royal Hospital.    

A short time later, just after 3pm, crews from Motherwell and Hamilton attended another road traffic collision, this time in Cameron Street in Motherwell. The incident involved two private cars and one female casualty was trapped. Using extrication tools, firefighters freed the trapped woman who was taken to Wishaw General Hospital.

At 4.27pm, a cal was received about another road traffic collision. The collision of two private cars had occurred on Arkleston Road in Paisley and firefighters from Renfrew Fire Station were quickly on the scene. Thankfully, this time, no one was trapped however one female adult casualty and two child casualties were given precautionary checkups at the scene before being transferred to the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Later on in the evening, firefighters from Kirkintilloch were called to an incident where a member of the public had fallen 25 metres down an embankment at the View Point Car Park near Crow Road in Lennoxtown. Firefighters assisted their ambulance colleagues to move the casualty to a suitable location so that the Royal Navy rescue helicopter could airlift him to the Southern General Hospital.