Busy night for SFR

Firefighters attend more than 100 incidents

FIREFIGHTERS from across the Strathclyde region attended more than 100 incidents last night. including 32 fires and five incidents which were not fire related.

At around 9.30pm, crews from Lanark were mobilised to a kitchen fire in Braxfield Terrace, New Lanark.   Firefighters donned breathing apparatus and used a hose reel jet and a  positive-pressure ventilation fan to extinguish the fire. The owner of the property was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation by Ambulance Service staff.

Meanwhile, at around midnight, crews from Sprinburn attended an RTC in the Barmulloch Road area of the town. Upon arrival crews found a vehicle that had crashed into a CCTV pole and caught alight. Thankfully, the driver had managed to escape the incident unharmed before firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used a hose reel jet to extinguish the fire.

Earlier at 1.30pm, firefighters from Maryhill came to the rescue of a man who had trapped his hand a lift doors at the multi-storey flats in the Wyndford Road area of the town. Firefighters quickly released the lift door, freeing the man.