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The 1985 Manchester Airport disaster occurred when British Airtours Flight 28M (officially known as Flight 328), an international passenger flight, was en-route from Manchester Airport to Corfu International Airport. It caught fire on takeoff on 22 August 1985, resulting in 55 fatalities.
Some incidents are wherever possible passed onto the local authority fire service so that the airport crews can return to give fire cover to the runway. Large airport fire services such as that based at Heathrow Airport have sufficient personnel and vehicles to deal with most emergencies on-site, although the LAFRS are called to most incidents ...
The service, alongside the Lancashire fire service, were among the first responders to the Saddleworth Moor fire on 24 June 2018, managing to extinguish the fire on the same day, a normal event said to happen on the moor on a hot summer's day, but because of the heatwave starving the land of rain and thus drying the peat, the fire reignited on ...
Aug. 12—Manchester fire crews were busy Sunday night battling a brush fire at an abandoned homeless encampment off Sheffield Road, officials said. Around 8:25 p.m. Sunday crews responded to a ...
Oct. 4—A fire on Straw Road in Manchester on Thursday evening caused an estimated $275,000 in damage. First-arriving fire crews found a single-family home with "extremely heavy fire" coming from ...
Aug. 31—Manchester firefighters rescued three men who became stranded on a small island while swimming in the Merrimack River late Wednesday, officials said. At 7:29 p.m. Wednesday, Manchester ...
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service: R: 5 September 1999: Metcalf had responded with his crew from Ramsbottom fire station to reports of a boy who had disappeared beneath the water in Holcombe Brook, Bury, Greater Manchester. Whilst attempting to search for the boy, Metcalf's rope became entangled on branches in the water and both he and ...
Aug. 29—A fire that engulfed all three floors of a Lake Avenue building in Manchester early Thursday morning caused considerable damage, according to authorities. Initial reports said two people ...