News in Shepton Mallet

Date: 01.04.2019
Time: 15:53
Location: Holwell Hill, Wanstrow, Shepton Mallet

The Fire Service were called to a report of a collision involving two lorries.
Two fire appliances and a rescue tender were mobilised to the incident.
Police, Fire and the Ambulance Service were all on scene working to make the vehicles safe and releasing the casualties 

Date: 01.04.2019
Time: 09:38
Location: Porchestall Drove, Glastonbury, Somerset

The fire service were initially called to a small fire involving wood shavings.
One crew from Glastonbury were initially sent.
On arrival the crews located fire and discovered that the fire was within a hopper.
Additional resources were requested. One pump from Street, One pump from Shepton Mallett and the aerial ladder platform from Bridgwater attended.
The fire was involving a building measuring twenty metres by five meters approximately three storeys high of a timber and metal construction. The fire was located in the bearing assembly of the hopper which was destroyed and had spread to wood shavings and dust collected in the hopper and its extraction system.
Crews used three thermal imaging cameras, one flexible camera, one hose reel jet and a light portable pump.
The fire was extinguished and safety advise given. 

Avon and Somerset police sent firearms officers and a 32-year-old was arrested

Date: 23.03.2019
Time: 01:11
Location: Silver Street, Stratton on the Fosse, Shepton Mallet

Devon and Somereset Fire and Rescue Service receieved a call from ambulance reporting a road traffic collision at the above location.

On arrival the incident commander confirmed one VW transporter and a tipper lorry had been involved in a road traffic collision resulting in one male and one female physically trapped within the VW transporter.

Date: 21.03.2019
Time: 03:45
Location: Moffats Drive, South Horrington, Wells

One fire appliance from Wells was sent to a vehicle on fire, called in by a number of local residents. Crews arrived on scene and confirmed the vehicle well alight. Crews got to work with one firefighter in breathing apparatus and one hose reel jet to put the fire out.
A second appliance was requested for water, with the second appliance from Wells being sent.
Crews damped down the fire and used a thermal imaging camera to check for hot spots. The cause of the fire was deemed as accidental. 

Date: 20.03.2019
Time: 12:43
Location: Nunney Road, Frome

Fire appliances from Frome and Warminster attended a fire at the above location.
The fire started in a toaster in the ground floor kitchen of a domestic dwelling. Firefighters used 4 breathing apparatus, 1 hosereel jet, 2 C02 extinguishers to extinguish the fire.  A positive pressure ventilation fan was used to ventilate the property.   

Date: 20.03.2019
Time: 15:55
Location: Sunny Hill, Pitcombe, Bruton

Fire appliances from Castle Carey and the Heavy Rescue Unit from Glastonbury attended an incident involving a 75 year old male trapped under a ride on lawnmower at the above address.
On arrival at the incident crews confirmed one elderly male trapped under a ride on mower. South West Ambulance were also in attendance and crews liaised with them to formulate a plan to release the casualty. The man was released from the mower and taken to hospital by ambulance.   

The event takes place at Shepton Mallet Prison in June

One light stayed on 24 hours a day and was not fixed for months, he says

Works to enforce the traffic calming measures surrounding Waterloo Road will commence this month