Lucky escape in Light aircraft crash

Light aircraft Crash landing at Farnley Leeds

The aircraft still on site this morning

Aerial view of the crash site

Calls were received to the emergency services at around 19:50 hours yesterday (25/05).  A Piper Cherokee Warrior II fixed wing aircraft came down near Hall Lane, just outside the grounds of Farnley Hall. Four people in the small plane had a lucky escape when the pilot successfully crash-landed in a farmers field. During the landing the aircraft struck some fence post in its path.

Damage can be seen on both wings where the aircraft collided with fence posts during the landing

Fire crews from Bradford, Stanningley, Leeds and Cleckheaton, together with ambulances and police, rushed to the scene on open land at Farnley Hall Farm.
None of the four people on board the aircraft were injured Miraculously, with only minor damage to the aircraft also.

Flight accident investigators and police are now investigating the cause of the Incident.

Demolished fence post marked by arrow

Dewsbury Fire Crews at High Road Incident

 Dewsbury Fire Crews at High Road / Middle Road Incident

The scene on High Road / Middle Road Earlsheaton Dewsbury

Two appliances from Dewsbury station attended an incident in Earlsheaton yesterday evening (08/05). The crews were called out around 7.50pm to a possible building fire.This turned out to be a storage area to the rear of the building containing old Portacabins.

Crews had to scale a wall to gain access to the site and used 2 small jets and Breathing apparatus sets to deal with the fire.

07:00 Update!!! Moorland Fire Baitings Reservoir, Rochdale Road, Ripponden

12:25 06 May 2013 Netherwood Lane, Marsden.
Moorland Fire MP x 6 Incident. Approximately 120 metres x 100 metres of moorland on fire. Crews used 2 Jets, 1 Fire fogging unit from the Wildfire Unit Todmorden, 1 argocat vehicle and 7 backpacks.
Appliances from Huddersfield, Meltham, Elland, Illingworth and Slaithwaite attended, plus the Wildfire Unit and support appliance from Todmorden.  The Logistics Support Unit from Odsal and the Personnel Welfare Unit from Fairweather Green also attended.

12:42 07 May 2013 Heald Top Farm, Sharney Ford, Bacup Road, Gauxholme, Todmorden
Moorland fire MP x 4 Incident-   Wildfire Unit in attendance from Todmorden.  1 kilometre square involved in fire.  Argo beaters and backpacks in use.
Appliancesattended from Todmorden, Mytholmroyd, Elland and Lancashire (Bacup).

 14:02 07 May 2013 Baitings Reservoir, Rochdale Road, Ripponden

Fire crews used beaters to tackle the fire

Moorland fire MP x 4 Incident involving an area of approx. 1000 metres by 500 metres.
Appliances from Illingworth, Brighouse, Holmfirth and Halifax in attendance, plus Wildfire Unit from Keighley.

This Incident is still ongoing with smoke affecting roads in the area. Police are attending with a view to closing some of the roads in the area due to the hazardous conditions

19:30  Update

Appliances are still in attendance with the incident still well alight and crews attempting to prevent the fire spreading to unaffected areas of the moor. Once again a helicopter is being used to assist in dousing the fire.

Blackstone Edge road has been closed  from Baitings Resevoir due to the fire.

A Fire front with Argocat in the heat haze

20:45 Update

Appliances in attendance have been made up to 8 for the West Yorkshire side of the incident and 5 from Greater Manchester. The Greater Manchester appliances are tackling the incident from the Littleborough side of the moor.
Turvin Road at Cragg Vale is once again affected. The battle continues....

Further update when information available

Update 07:00 08/05 The fire had a 2 Kilometre fire front.  Crews used beaters, back packs, ultra lightweight pumps, Argo Cat, Fire Fogger and water shuttles to deal with the fire.  Crews attended the incident from Mytholmroyd, Todmorden, Halifax, Huddersfield, Mirfield and Skelmanthorpe.  Specialist Wild Fire equipment and Officers were also mobilised, the incident has been reduced to 4 pumps, these appliances will remain on the moorland overnight.

Moorland Fire at Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd

Moorland Fire Cragg Vale 

 

ROAD CLOSURE: The B6138 BLACKSTONE EDGE ROAD  / TURVIN ROAD is STILL CLOSED

Fire crews have dealt with a major moorland fire around the Cragg vale area of Calderdale. Eight appliances including 2 wildfire units from Todmorden and Holmfirth were at the scene attempting to contain the spread. Crews who initially attended at around 12:50hrs 05/05 needed assistance and appliances from Mytholmroyd, Halifax, Brighouse, Illingworth, Holmfirth, Todmorden, and Elland are some of the crews who attended. A Water Carrying unit also attended from Stanningley to secure water supplies for the incident

Some roads around the area were closed by the Police whilst the incident was ongoing


This view just shows how dangerous fires on the moors can be.

View of the large fire front on Soyland Moor taken by West Yorkshire Police Copyright NPAS Carrgate

The Police helicopter attended to assist senior fire officers at the incident to get an overall aerial view of the fire and help best plan resources.From the image above it can be clearly seen how long one of the fire fronts was at 14:47 05/05.
 

18:40 Update

Crews still dealing with the incident using jets and fogging units from wildfire units in attendance. The firefighting operations are being hampered by strong winds that are continually changing direction. A helicopter is also being used fitted with a water bucket to douse the flames from the air.

Link to Video from Halifax Courier: http://t.co/gToPAz0LdJ

21:00 Update

Cragg Road now reported to have been reopened

Update 09:00 06/05/2013

A team of specialist wildfire officers successfully dealt with the fire, helped by equipment provided by Yorkshire Water, the Walshaw Dean Estate and other land owners.
Station commander Andy Newman, who was leading the team, said: “There had been very much a partnership approach to tackling this fire.
“The South Pennine Wildfire Operations Group allows us to share a range of equipment, resources and knowledge.”
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service also drafted in a helicopter to drop water on to the blaze. It collected water from Ogden Reservoir and dropped it on to the fire. Fire crews used an Argocat vehicle to transport crews around the fire site and also carry vital equipment to firefighters dealing with the incident on the ground.

The blaze is believed to have been started deliberately.

West Yorkshire firefighters have had a busy start to the Bank Holiday weekend attending more than 150 incidents, 80 of which were fires in the open.

Fire Crews battle blaze at Wetherby Racecourse

Image supplied by YNMS News Pictures - leedspress.com

FIRE crews from West and North Yorkshire were today tackling a blaze at Wetherby Racecourse. The call to the fire service at around 10:00 am today (05/05/2013) saw the fire involve part of a storage building next to the racecourse’s grandstand which was well alight.

A spokesman for the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said a gas leak was also said to have been identified in the grandstand itself.

There was a carboot sale ongoing within the race course grounds at the time of the incident. The Police helicopter attended to search the area for any persons likely to be connected to the arson incident, but onlookers and people at the sale made this a difficult operation.

Appliances from Wetherby, Moortown, Stanks and Gipton were called and support was also given by Tadcaster (North Yorkshire)

Anyone who may have seen anything suspicious are asked to Contact Wetherby police on 101

Breaking News!!!!! Tractor Crashes into Shop front in Liversedge + other news

Tractor Crashes into Shop front in Liversedge

A tractor has crashed into a pharmacy in Liversedge after the driver lost control.

It is believed the throttle got stuck as the tractor turned into Valley Road just before 10.30am today 28/04.
The tractor crashed into the front of Shah’s Pharmacy, damaging the wall and roof. Firefighters from Cleckheaton were called to support police and paramedics, who treated the driver for minor head injuries.
Watch commander Gary Hatton said: “We were thinking somebody was going to be trapped in the tractor, but the driver was already out.

Scene of the collision this morning : Ash Milne

“We have isolated it, set up a cordon and requested other agencies attend.”
Kirklees Council is due to send staff to cut the supply to a streetlight knocked over by the tractor and assess the structural damage to the building.

 

Fire in derelict garage in Listerhills, Bradford

16:09pm Saturday 27th April 2013 in Bradford

Fire in a derelict garage gave off large amounts of smoke as firefighters had to tackle a fierce blaze at Longside Lane, Listerhills in Bradford.

Image via Twitter

Crews from Bradford station attended the fire,  Firefighters had to don breathing apparatus to get into the derelict garage and fight the fire. The blaze was started by burning rubbish which spread to the building.

News Incident Round Up

Friday 26th April 2012

One woman died at the scene and a further 20 were injured – seven seriously – when a lorry hit a minibus travelling along the motorway
The group of 21 women were on their way to Liverpool from South Elmsall in West 
Yorkshire, as part of a hen celebration.
Twelve miles into their trip, close to junction 32 on the westbound carriageway of the M62, the minibus was struck by a Heavy Goods Vehicle.
The brute force of the collision shunted the minibus off the carriageway and down a grassy bank where it came to rest on its side on the slip road. The lorry also overturned in the smash.

The lorry driver was arrested in connection with the incident.

Dave Walton, Assistant Chief Officer for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: “There was a lot of debris and people lying outside the vehicle, by the roadside.

“This is where firefighters’ training kicks in, but at the end of the day they are human beings and they are not immune.”
With the Yorkshire Air Ambulance grounded for planned maintenance work, helicopters from other providers across the north were dispatched to the M62 to take the injured women to various hospitals.

One helicopter took a casualty to Leeds General Infirmary, 
while another flew to the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough with a patient on board.
Two aircraft from North West Air Ambulance and two from Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance were also involved.
A spokeswoman for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust said: “Due to the scale of the incident we enacted our major incident plan and dispatched a significant number of resources to the scene including ambulances, our hazardous area response team, doctors and air ambulances.”

Police confirmed an off-duty officer was the first person to report the accident and had stayed at the scene to help. Witnesses are asked to call police, who are investigating what caused the crash, on 101.

BBC Report from of the Incident with Video

11:59 26 Apr 2013

Mexborough Drive, Chapeltown, Leeds
Road Traffic Collision involving 1 vehicle. Casualty extricated by Fire Service Personnel and transported to hospital by ambulance. Appliances from Moortown and Wetherby attended.

09:01 26 Apr 2013 
Belle Isle Road, Belle Isle, Leeds
Road Traffic Collision involving 1 vehicle. Casualty trapped was extricated by Fire Service personnel and transported to hospital by ambulance. Two appliances from Hunslet attended.

23:05 25 Apr 2013

Dulverton Court, Cottingley, Leeds
At 11:19pm last night police were called by the fire service who were attending a fire at a flat at Dulverton Court sheltered housing in Cottingley. The occupant of the flat, a 65-year-old man, was treated by ambulance staff but pronounced dead at the scene. The incident is not being treated as suspicious and the Coroner's office has been informed.

20:00 23 April2013
Whitaker Fibres Ltd, Birksland Street, Bradford. 
Proved to be a bailing machine caught fire at a textile works.
Watch commander Alan Holdsworth said an electrical fault or the machine overheating may have caused the “quite serious” fire at the premise

Mr Holdsworth said: “The workers managed to isolate the electricity supply and used an internal hose reel to stop it from spreading.” Fire service staff left workers cleaning up at about 11pm. No-one was injured.
Appliances from Bradford and Idle attended.