Incident update 2 September

A quiet 24 hours for Strathclyde's firefighters

The last 24 hours were fairly quiet for our crews but with a total of 115 incidents, our firefighters were still kept busy. In amongst our 'special service' calls was the rescue of residents trapped in a lift; the extrication of a child who had become trapped on his bicycle following an accident; the rescue of a man suffering a heart attack; and a clear-up operation following a spill of petrol in a service station.

• At 9.35am yesterday morning, crews from paisley Community Fire Station were mobilised to a block of flats in the town's Bredland Drive. Firefighters extinguished a small fire in the kitchen of a ground floor flat.
• At 3.55am this morning, crews from Polmadie and Clydesmill Community Fire Stations were mobilised to a tenement in Allision Street in Glasgow's southside. A fire in the kitchen of a second floor flat was quickly extinguished and firefighters led one woman to the safe hands of the paramedics, who treated her for mild smoke inhalation.