Date: 15th November 2008
Time: 0101
Type: Smoke from flat
Address: London Road North, Lowestoft
Initial Attendance: Normanshurst 01 and 02
Final Attendance: Normanshurst 05
My slumbers were shattered by the shrill call of that blessed alerter!
I made it across Normanston Drive, narrowly avoiding being mown down by Ladder 1 as it headed off into town.
We followed a few minutes later with the idea of going down Old Nelson Street as this runs behind London Road North and some of the flats have entrances from there. However, we could see Ladder 1 in London Road North and I doubled back to join them. There were no visible signs of fire or smoke in this area and we were getting conflicting reports of where the incident might actually be situated.
Ladder 1 with White Watch on board looped back through town one way while we went in the opposite direction towards Old Nelson Street again. We pulled up next to the rear entrance of the London Road flats and Dennis went off to investigate. Just a few seconds later and he was calling for two BA, BAECO and a hosereel. It was then PTO in for the pump, start running the hosereel out (and extending it from its normal 60m to 120m), laying out a covering jet (consisting of four lengths of 45) and water on to the hosereel.
The Watch had also arrived and lent a hand getting all the above done plus lighting, tool kits etc.
Mel and Cheesey were committed in BA and found two separate seats of fire which were quickly extinguished.
The job had gone to Make Pumps 3, presumably to provide enough BA wearers should things have got out of hand.
And that was that…
Time to make up everything and head off home.
As is always the case, I never seem to be able to get back to sleep after a night-time shout. And last night was no different. I can guarantee that I'll nod off in the middle of England's rugby match this afternoon, probably the only thing on the box today that I want to watch.