News Up-dated 1st January 2012 . Total incidents 0.
Happy New year to all our customers and colleagues from other agencies from all of us. 2012 is looking to bring some new and exciting new ventures to the oganisation. Watch this space for up dates coming soon.
Crews have had a long summer working at festival from 3000 to 60,000 customers. This year we have once again proved we are able to deliver a cost effective professional service personalised to the individual festival. Our crews have responded to the needs of the festivals in responding to fire calls and other emergency calls at festivals accross the UK. We are now preparing for bonfire night in November.
Crews have spent the winter up dating skills, servicing equipment and preparing for the on coming year. We look forward to working with established customers and look forward to meeting new clients and challenges in 2011.
Bonfire night 2010 has seen Fire extinguishers from the organisation in use for the third year, we would like to thank the Bonifre societies for there continued custom.
A crew of four attended a music festival over the weekend to celebrate world music, crews provided over three hundred extinguishers, 16 water barrel fire points and onsite 24 hr fire cover. Onsite crews undertook various fire and rescue related calls and carried out fire prevention work.
Another successful year with Paul and the team at Blissfields 2010, a excellent run event that provides a a very relaxed family festival, a crew of two attended providing all the fire fighting provision for the site over the three days.
Crews have had a busy May bank holiday weekend. Fire cover at Suneset Festival providing on site fire cover , fire points and extinguishers for the duration of the event . Whilst the team were in The Wirral Any event fire and Rescue provided extinguishers and fire point stands for Meadowlands festival in Sussex. We are now preparing for Blissfields festival in a few weeks.
Festival season has begun - The team are busy working with organisers across the Uk providing equipment during the set up and preparing to attend events providing fire, rescue intervention and fire prevention services.
Crews in the last 7 days have been involved with a search for a missing persons and have undergone a pre arranged search and rescue exercise to refresh and refine search skills. Both took place in the sussex countryside.
January has led to us being involved in two incidents, a chimney fire and flooding incident. Both in the loca area of our base, the chimney fire was dealt with within an hour of notification whilst the flooding took most of the day to deal with due to a burst water main in the area.
The team are busy preparing to undertake an exercise in early March to run through our Rural search and rescue skills. Watch this space for updates.
We would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. We are beginning to work with our existing customers for this years festivals and look forward to meeting new challenges and events in 2010. If you would like a company portfolio then please drop me an e mail to see how we could assist at your event.
Crews have had a busy few days in the run up to bonfire night, 32 extinguishers out to hire, extinguisher familirisation and on site fire cover and all in the last week. Extinguishers were used to help extingusih effergies as they were paraded through the town centre due to accidental ignition.
New fire fighter quad - AEFRS have developed our new fire fighting quad, ideal for small, festivals or events with limited access. See our gallery page for pictures of the quad and our stock of extinguishers and water barrels for event hire.
Crews have had a busy few weeks, Big love then down to Winchester, crews provided a total package of extinguishers, signs, fire applaince and crew for 3 days of a music festival, crews were kept busy in carrying out prevention and thus the vehicle didn't move a wheel.
Crews have provided fire cover at Big love 2009 for the second year in a row, crews provided a total package of extinguishers, signs, alarms as well as on site appliance and crew for the 24 hours.
Crews have provided first aid, Fire cover and safety on 19th June for a private party in the Sussex countryside, attendees partied until 05.00 hrs under the supervision of two crew members from AEFRS.
Crews were called out on 20th May 2009 at 16.30 hours to carry out search and rescue for 3 hours.
AEFRS crews have attended, set up and run a team building evening for a well known Uk based company in london, the evening provided various exercises to bond the group as a team and work together to over come tasks.
AEFRS can now offer extinguisher sales, for all types of extinguishers and a competitive price please contact us for details.
AEFRs crews have spent the past three days assisting local police in two search incidents for missing persons in the local area involving searching large areas of rural and wooded areas.
AEFRS have increased the fire fighting and fire safety capabilities with the purchase of a Kawasaki KLF300 Quad, this gives crews the abilitie to get around the sites and fire fight in places the pump is unable to drive into with greater speed and efficiency.
Crews render first aid treatment follwoing child with minor burns - a crew of two assisted a young female at a recent event following an ember landing on the skin.
Operations Manager up-dates his IOSH qualification and carrys out refresher training for all crew members.
Two crew members and a member of support staff have attended phase one and two of Search and Rescue (SAR) training to enable us to be better prepared to assist in SAR at events.
Crew Members from AEFRS attended the scene of an RTC at 12.10hrs on 03.03.2008, crews carried out first aid until the arrival of the ambulance, made the vehicle safe before assisting the police in making the highway safe following a spill of fuel and oil.
We are pleased to annouce we have begun co-working with Event Fire and Rescue Services who also speciaiize in off-road events, this will increase our resources further and ensure we are ready for your call.