Incident No.
Date: 29th December 2007
Time: 0330
Type: Flat fire
Address: Denmark Road, Lowestoft
Initial Attendance: Normanhurst 01 and 02
Final Attendance: Make Pumps 3, persons reported – Normanshurst 05
Two nights ago my sleep was disturbed by the chemical job that never was and now last night, at almost exactly the same time, we have a flat fire.
Andy ‘Cheesey’ Armes made it in before me taking the drivers position, so I went in one of the two BA slots with Mel Buck.
Just as we pulled up at the flat an assistance message went in to Control to Make Pumps 3, Persons Reported. If there is any chance that there may be someone still in the building the incident gets escalated in this manner to ensure that there are enough BA crews available.
Thankfully nothing for us to do – just one BA team from Blue Watch were committed into the flat. It seems that this was unoccupied and had been boarded up – so had been broken into and the fire set.
Luckily the young couple and their tiny baby from the flat above had heard the smoke alarm going off in the flat below. They were outside as we pulled up. To keep all three warm they were ushered into the crew cab of Ladder 2 and were treated to our furnace like heating!
Pete Brown and I went up to the couples flat to check their smoke alarm and to fit a second one.
And that was it…
Back home at about 0445 hours for a cup of tea and crash out on the sofa.
With these disturbed nights it looks like I’ll be having another hot date with the sofa this evening!
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