A large building fire in Kidderminster prompts a major incident with multiple fire trucks, engines and emergency vehicles responding with siren, horn and lights in Worcestershire, UK.
At 14:51 on September 8, 2021, emergency services responded to a fire at Betts Metals (and surrounding unit) on Park Street in the centre of Kidderminster. Homes and businesses were evacuated but thankfully there were no reported injuries.
At the height of the incident over 100 firefighters, 20 fire engines and numerous specialist units from 4 different fire services responded to the incident along with West Mercia Police, West Midlands Ambulance Service, and other organisations such as the Environment Agency.
Chief Fire Officer Jon Pryce reported that the incident was downscaled to 10 pumps overnight while crews dealt with large amounts of molten metal. You can follow CFO Pryce here: https://twitter.com/HWFireChief
BBC news article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-58488793
Contents
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0:00 - Major fire in Kidderminster
0:23 - Fire engine responding in
0:30 - Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service Scania P94 Water Carrier 287
1:01 - Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service Iveco Daily Incident Support Vehicle 268
1:53 - Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service Scania P310 Aerial Ladder Platform 466
2:23 - Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service Scania P94 Water Carrier 287
3:20 - Water Carrier shuttling water to the fire scene
4:02 - Aerial Ladder Platform set up for fire attack
4:11 - West Mercia Police responding and maintaining a road closure
4:38 - Fire and smoke billows from the industrial building fire
4:47 - Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Environmental Protection unit 249
4:58 - Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service MAN TG High Volume Pump
5:12 - Emergency services attending to the fire
5:40 - Smoke billowing over the scene
5:53 - West Midlands Ambulance Service
6:21 - Improving smoke conditions
6:28 - Emergency vehicle activity at the scene
8:33 - Aerial Ladder Platforms operating at the fire
10:00 - Incident scaling back
10:29 - Summary
11:31 - Outroduction
Information
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Incident: Fire in a Commercial Property
Time: 14:51
Date: 08/09/21
Location: Park Street, Kidderminster
Emergency Services: Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service, West Midlands Fire Service, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service, West Midlands Ambulance Service, West Mercia Police
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Recorded: September 8, 2021