Incident involving a road tanker carrying LPG in Akkar, Lebanon. Incident occurred on Sunday afternoon (02/03/2025), and thankfully no injuries or deaths were recorded. Scary to think what could have happened had this incident occurred in a more populated area.

Interesting incident for Lubbock Fire Rescue in the past 24 hours at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas!

Heathrow Airport forced to close for 24 hours due to a fire at an electrical substation supplying the airport.

A fire broke out yesterday at a battery storage plant in Kilwinning, worryingly for local residents in a new housing estate, this incident occurred almost exactly 1 year after a huge blaze at the same site.

Both Firefighters have now been named, Firefighter Jennie Logan aged 30 of Oxfordshire Fire & Rescue, and Sub Officer Martyn Sadler aged 38 of London Fire Brigade who was working in his On Call role at the time for Oxfordshire Fire & Rescue.

If anyone has watched the Netflix documentary on Grenfell and is looking for further reading, I've made all my posts on summarising the inquiry report free to read. Links in the thread below:

More interesting information on the position of one of the Community Interest Companies associated with a UK Fire Service, one most of us have no doubt had many messages about in recent months. teesside.thelead.uk/p/cleveland-fi…

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Would highly recommend everyone watch this documentary, and also read Peter Apps book titled Show Me The Bodies.

Awful news coming out of Cleveland Fire Brigade, my thoughts are with the family, friends, colleagues and loved ones of Firefighter Neil Allport at this incredibly difficult time.

Some interesting names pop up when you search the company on companies house which the loan was taken to buy shares in. I honestly can’t believe this got to this, I feel for the employees who’ve all been caught in this saga which appears to be over. teesside.thelead.uk/p/cleveland-fi…