81014

Fire Commercial

Edge Renewables
Stretton Westwood
Much Wenlock

Station ground: Much Wenlock

Saturday, 1 February, 2020 08:10


At 08:10 on Saturday, 1 February, 2020, SFRS Fire Control received a call reporting a fire classified as Fire Commercial in Much Wenlock .

5 fire appliances including the Aerial Ladder Platform, the Heavy Pumping Unit and the Incident Command Unit were mobilised from Bridgnorth, Much Wenlock, Shrewsbury, Telford Central and Tweedale. Operations, Hazmat and Safety officers were in attendance.

Crews used the following equipment to tackle the fire:

  • Breathing Apparatus (BA)
  • Covering jet
  • Hosereel jet

Also at the scene of the incident were: the Land Ambulance Service .

Fire Control recieved a call to smoke issuing from a commerical premises - Once in attendance Crews found an incident involving woodchip and a biomass boiler. Incident involves Bio Mass Facility. Steel frame and metal cladding construction . 10m high by 40m x 25m fire involving wood chip and machinery. water relay in place crews damping down with two main jets . Breathing apparatus no longer in use. Incident sectorised. Incident scaled down to two relief pumps. Ambulance and Hart team also in attendance.

The stop message was received at Sat, 02/01/2020 - 11:43

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