Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service’s Ceremonial Unit is banging the drum for new members. The Corps of Drums is looking for male and female experienced drummers or buglers particularly ex armed forces or ex cadet bands. Or those that show the potential to learn through dedicated practice can be taught and will be able to join the team in displays, ceremonies, and parades, including the Firefighters Memorial parade in London and Armistice Day parades in Ypres, Belgium. The Corps have recently returned from the Bremen International Tattoo. The Corps meet every Tuesday for...
Exeter City Football Club has conirmed that the Secretary of State has given the go-ahead to the St James Park Development.
Plans to replace the ageing Stagecoach Family Stand had been put on hold while the club waited to hear the outcome of a request for the development plans to be called-in from the St James Forum.
However, the Secretary of State has decided not to call-in the plans after the club was granted planning permission by Exeter City Council earlier this year. Exeter City chairman Julian Tagg said: "We are delighted that the Secretary of State has decided not to...
Fire crews were called reports of alarm sounding at Glenorchy Court, Exeter Road, Exmouth earlier today (Monday 9 May).
Fire Control sent two appliances from Exmouth to the incident.
On arrival crews made a forced entry and an elderly woman was escorted from the building. She was given oxygen therapy and first aid due to smoke inhalation and an ambulance was requested.
Fire crews confirmed there was a fire in the oven, which was extinguished by 3.02pm.
The woman was left in the care of ambulance crews on scene.
One fire appliance from Witheridge, two from Tiverton and the Water Bowser from Exeter were sent to a report of a barn on fire at Pennymoor, Tiverton.
On arrival crews confirmed that the barn, which was being used as a workshop, was well alight. Livestock from an adjacent building were evacuated. The workshop also contained gas cylinders believed to be acetylene, argon and butane.
To deal with the incident crews are using compressed air foam monitors, two main jets and a thermal image camera.
The workshop contained vehicles, cylinders and workshop tools all of which...
Two dogs have died and two people suffered the effects of breathing in smoke in a fire at a Devon home.
Two appliances from Okehampton were dispatched to Crediton Road in the town at 4.22am.
Firefighters used two breathing apparatus, one hose reel jet and a safety jet to extinguish the fire. They also used a Positive Pressure Ventilation fan to clear the smoke that had filled the living areas and roof space of the property.
An ambulance was requested to treat two adults suffering smoke inhalation.
The two dogs were found dead and removed from the property by...
Firefighters were called to fire at an Exeter home this morning (Monday 11 April).
Two fire appliances from Danes Castle attended the blaze at a house in Norwich Road, Exwick after reports of a dishwasher on fire.
On arrival crews found the dishwasher was well alight and got to work using two breathing apparatus sets, one hose reel jet and a positive pressure ventilation fan.
The ground floor kitchen was slight damaged by fire and the remainder of the ground floor severely damaged by smoke.
A total of four breathing apparatus sets were used in total.
Caravan owners are being encouraged to install smoke alarms after a family escaped from a fire which destroyed their mobile home at a caravan park near Sidmouth.
Two fire crews from Sidmouth attended the incident at Kingsdown Tail caravan park, Salcombe Regis, early in the morning of 20 March.
The family was asleep inside the caravan and the alarm was raised by a passer-by who saw smoke coming out. The occupants were unaware of the fire at the time as there were no smoke alarms installed.
Watch Manager Gareth Sydenham said: “Fortunately, no one was hurt on this...
A house in Silverton was badly damaged by fire on Wednesday evening (2 March).
Firefighters were called to a blaze at a property in Poundsland shortly after 8pm.
Two appliances from Exeter were sent to the scene. Upon arrival crews requested further pumps which came from Topsham, Tiverton and Crediton, along with the command unit from Honiton.
The fire involved a two storey house, garage and a gymnasium.
The cause of the fire was believed to be accidental; crews had extinguished the fire by midnight.
Pets living in Honiton now have a better chance of surviving household fires – thanks to new oxygen masks for animals being carried on the town’s fire engines.
The funding for the set of specially-designed masks to Honiton has been provided by Honiton's Fortescue Lodge.
Honiton's Fortescue Lodge donated the money for a set of masks to Smokey Paws, the not-for-profit organisation trying to help family pets in the event of a fire. Honiton is the first fire station in Devon to receive the life-saving devices.
Watch Manager Wayne Broom said: “As a dog owner myself, I...
