UPDATED: A fire investigation is underway after five fire crews were called out to a serious house fire at Callands, Warrington, last night, Monday.
At 18:43 crews from Warrington, Lymm, Birchwood, Stockton Heath, Penketh and an aerial ladder platform from Lymm attended a fire at a semi-detached property on Monkswood Close.
On arrival, crews found the whole of the semi-detached brick-built property well alight.
Four firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were deployed into the house to tackle the fire with hose reel jets. All persons have been accounted for. An aerial ladder platform was requested due to fire spreading to the roof.
At 19:30 six firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were tackling the fire from both the front and back of the property, while two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were checking neighbouring properties for fire spread.
At 20:00 – the incident was reduced to four fire engines and the aerial ladder platform as the fire had been extinguished. Crews checked for hotspots.
AT 21:00 – firefighters continued to check for hot spots and fans were used to remove smoke. The aerial ladder platform was released from the incident.
At 21:25 – the incident wasreduced to two fire engines.
At 07:50 – one fire engine from Stockton Heath remained on scene. Firefighters have carried out hourly hotspot checks with the thermal imaging camera. A fire investigation will now be carried out to determine the cause.
2 Comments
FIVE crews for ONE house fire? ?
Lymm, Birchwood, Stockton Heath, Penketh, and a 2nd from Lymm?
Was this a proportional response ??. I would expect 2 crews to easily handle a fire of this nature, it’s not like 10 hoses were needed to tackle the blaze.
For your information there was also a police van and 2 police cars. Maybe you should ask the joining house that the excess fire engines saved from being gutted aswell if they thought it was worth it. Wind your neck in and don’t put stupid comments!