Incident update 28 July

195 incidents in the last 24 hours - click to read an overview of what's been keeping our firefighters busy

Another busy night for Strathclyde Fire & Rescue, with a total of 195 incidents reported. Sadly, the good weather brought some bad behaviour and our firefighters were required to close 29 maliciously opened hydrants. Open hydrants represent a real drain on the local community, causing a huge amount of damage and hampering firefighters attending fires.

• Retained crews from Maybole and Girvan were called to a fire in a top floor flat in Girvan at 2.40pm on Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters rescued a man from the premises who was treated at the scene for the effects of smoke inhalation.
• Firefighters from Hamilton Community Fire Station attended a road traffic collision in Uddingston involving four cars. Our staff used heavy duty cutting equipment to free a woman trapped in the wreckage. One casualty was taken to Monklands Hospital. The accident occurred at 5.55pm on Wednesday afternoon and for a time closed access to the M73 and M74 during the busy rush hour period.
• At 6.53pm that evening, our Operations Support Centre was alerted to a fire in a scrap yard in King George V Dock in Govan. Firefighters arrived at the scene to find a large quantity of scrap and a large industrial conveyor belt on fire.  A total of 13 fire crews battled the fire over a period of 10 hours, using our High Volume Pump to take additional water direct from the Clyde. The incident was finally closed at 5.23am this morning.
• At 10.31pm, crews from Stewarton, Dreghorn, Kilwinning and Ayr Community Fire Stations battled a large fire in some portacabins on Dundonald Road in Kilmarnock.
• Early this morning firefighters from Springburn Community Fire Station were called to a road traffic collision on Cumbernauld Road in Glasgow where a car left the road and crashed down an embankment. One man escaped with minor injuries and another was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary.