Firefighters Tackle Industrial Blaze

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It was a busy day for SFR yesterday with crews attending almost 100 incidents across the area.

At around 12.45pm, crews from Girvan and Maybole were mobilised to a fire in Grangestone Industrial Estate. Within minutes, firefighters arrived on scene to find that the insulation surrounding an 800,000 litre oil tank, which were empty at the time, was alight.

It soon became clear that due to the potential of the fire spreading to a nearby building storing over 2,000 litres of bleach and hydrochloric acid, extra resources were required and further crews were mobilised. On the ground, firefighters donned breathing apparatus and used hose reel jets to tackle the fire and to cool eight nearby oxygen cylinders.

Once the fire was under control, firefighters used thermal imaging cameras to ensure there was no further risk and the incident was brought to a safe conclusion.

Earlier, at around 10.20am, firefighters from Maryhill and Yorkhill were mobilised to an RTC on the M8 in Glasgow. Upon arrival crews were informed that there was an elderly female trapped within a car. Firefighters quickly rescued her from the car and handed her over to the waiting ambulance crew, who took her to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for a precautionary check up.