Property fire

Fire Control received a call from a member of the public in the West Coker area stating that they could see a fire in the open. The on-duty watch from Yeovil was immediately mobilised to this location, upon booking in attendance, crew discovered that this was a barn and caravan on fire and an assistance message was received requesting that this incident 'made pumps 4' and requested the attendance of a water carrier and the heavy rescue vehicle.

Crews from Yeovil on-call, Crewkerne, Shernborne and Bridport (Dorset and Wilsthire FRS) was mobilised alongside with an officer.

At 00:53 - Crew confirmed that this building was used as storage with several seats of fire and a cabin adjacent. Police were also in attendance. Crew were working with 4x breathing apparatus and 3x hose reel jets backed up with the water carrier.

At 01:18 - Crew have discovered cylinders within the building involved in fire. Crews carried out tests and got to work with cooling these cylinders.

At 01:38 - Crew were making steady progress with dampening down - 4x breathing apparatus and 3x hose reel jets were in use.

02:06 - Crew continue to make steady progress, breathing apparatus is now discontinued.

At approx 03:00 - all appliances left incident, with the request that Yeovil Crew carry out a revisit at 0800 hours.

This incident is still ongoing and will be updated in due course.