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A Scania built fire engine of the Dorset service.. Dorset Fire and Rescue Service is the former statutory Fire and Rescue Service for the area of Dorset, South West England.The Service Headquarters were located in Colliton Park, Dorchester, but as of October 2008 moved to a new purpose built location in Poundbury.
The service has 50 fire stations covering its area: six in the Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole council areas, 20 in the rest of Dorset, three in Swindon, and 21 in the rest of Wiltshire. [ 6 ] The service uses a variety of duty systems including wholetime firefighters , retained firefighters (on-call), and day-crewed 08:30–18:30 Monday to ...
Dorset Fire and Rescue Service: R: 16 October 1987: See listing under Ernest Gregory. [52] [53] John Whiteside: 27: Lancashire Fire Brigade: 26 July 1963: A fire had developed in an electric furnace at ICI Hillhouse, near Fleetwood in Lancashire. The furnace was used to heat anthracite to make carbide electro paste.
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The fire service finally withdrew from the fire on 4 June 2020, seventeen days after the fire started. 220 hectares of forest had been burned. [11] Firefighters from all 50 station in Dorset and Wiltshire were used, totalling 70 of the 74 engines, all eight heavy off-road pumps and all 14 Land Rover pumps. 22 crew from other counties also ...
In 2012, a married couple walking their dog over the heath had to be rescued by the Dorset Fire and Rescue Service, after they became stuck in a freezing swamp. [3] In May 2020, a large-scale fire, the Wareham Forest fire, was believed to have been started by a disposable barbecue or camp fire and worsened by warm, dry conditions. The fire left ...
On 21 June 1988, a large fire and explosion engulfed the BDH chemical plant in Poole, Dorset, England. [1] 3,500 people were evacuated out of the town centre in the biggest peacetime evacuation in the UK since World War II. [2] Despite the intensity of the explosion, nobody was killed or seriously injured. [3]
On the outbreak of war in August 1914, the fortress engineers moved to their war stations in the coastal defences. The Wiltshire Company was undergoing its annual training at Fort Purbrook, Portsmouth, and went straight from there to Weymouth, where along with the Dorset company and work details from infantry battalions, it worked on completing the Portland defences.