Daily incident round-up

Firefighters attend a range of incidents of the past 24 hours

STRATHCLYDE firefighters attended a range of incidents in the past 24 hours, including fires and road traffic collisions.

At around 7.45pm yesterday, crews from Troon and Dreghorn  were mobilised to a fire in the West Crescent area of Troon following reports of a woman inside a house where the kitchen was on fire. Upon arrival, firefighters quickly donned breathing apparatus and led the woman to safety before extinguishing the fire using a hosereel jet. The woman was later taken to Ayr Hospital for assessment. 

Earlier  firefighters from Easterhouse were called to an road traffic collision in the town's Wellhouse Road. Upon arrival, crews found that an elderly woman was trapped in a car that had rolled onto its side. Firefighters rescued the woman from the car and treated her with oxygen before she was taken by ambulance to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where she was treated for back and shoulder injuries. 

Meanwhile, at around 9pm, crews from Lanark were called to an incident in Lanark's Caldwellside Industrial Estate after reports of car leaving the road. Firefighters arrived at the scene and rescued  a man who was trapped following the incident. The casualty, who had suffered injuries to his neck, back and legs, was freed from the vehicle and taken by ambulance to Wishaw General Hospital. Crews then worked to make the vehicle safe and brought the incident to a quick conclusion.