Pictures
from 22-30 November:
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A Red Goddess deployed at a major fire at a disused
factory in West Bromwich on 22 November. Some 18 Green
and Red Goddesses attended the incident, along with
six BARTs and RESTs
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Some 150 personnel from the Armed Forces, including
RAF experts from Breathing Apparatus Rescue Teams, and
soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Wales, succeeded
in containing the blaze
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A member of an RAF rescue team familiarises himself
with the complex layout of Cardiff's Millennium Stadium
to ensure proper emergency cover can be provided for
the Wales-New Zealand Rugby International on 23 November
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A Royal Navy rescue team cuts an injured woman from
a wrecked car following an accident in Cheltenham on
23 November. A Green Goddess crew from 7 Parachute Regiment,
Royal Horse Artillery, also assisted at the scene
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon thanked Army and RAF personnel
on firefighting duties in Nottinghamshire on 23 November
when he visited their temporary fire station at Chetwynd
Barracks
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The Swansea paper factory fire |
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The BART team's vehicle |
An RAF Red Goddess, Green Goddess and Breathing Apparatus
Rescue Team were called to a serious fire at a car workshop
in Earlswood, Gwent, on the night of 24 November
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An oxy-acetylene tank had exploded in the workshop.
A man suffered severe burns and was taken to hospital.
The RAF crews extinguished the blaze and spent two hours
damping down
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A WREN firefighter holds the eleven-week old baby she
rescued from a smoke-filled flat at a fire in a Southampton
tower block. The child received attention at the scene
from paramedics
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A pizza house in Peterborough showed their appreciation
of the efforts by the Armed Forces firefighters, donating
some of their products to the local temporary fire station
manned by the Army and RAF
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A search proved the owner was out, and the cause of
the smoke - a overheated fan heater - was dealt with.
Sergeant Crowley takes a breather at the end of the
incident
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Soldiers from 3 Close Support Regiment, Royal Logistic
Corps, dealt with a chimney on fire at a Staffordshire
farmhouse on 27 November. The flue had developed a bad
blockage and the updraught from a wood stove had stoked
an intense fire in the chimney. The soldiers attacked
the problem from above and below, clearing the bottom
of the flue while water was pumped in from above
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A Green Goddess crew at Worcester Temporary Service
Fire Station undertake conversion training for a Red
Goddess vehicle on 27 November, including the correct
use of the longer, standard Fire Service length, ladder
carried aboard the more modern appliances
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Lance Sergeant Hopkins briefs the Deputy Prime Minister,
John Prescott, during a visit to the Joint Operation
Control Centre at Chelsea Barracks in London on 28 November
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Corporal Mark and Senior Aircraftswoman Angie Dawson
celebrated their first wedding anniversary on 28 November
while serving together at Bedford Temporary Service
Fire Station as members of Royal Air Force specialist
rescue teams
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RAF and Royal Navy Breathing Apparatus Rescue Team members
experienced an eventful shift in Nottingham on the night
of 28/29 November, cutting a mother and daughter from
a wrecked car, rescuing a man from a 30ft deep shaft,
and dealing with fires at a house and a factory
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An RAF member of the Nottingham teams rests at the end
of another successful task. At the house fire, neighbours
had managed to help the occupants escape, but the military
firefighters still had to conduct a search to confirm
everyone was safe, and bring the blaze under control
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When Guardsman Wayne Flint (right), of the Grenadier
Guards, reported for emergency firefighting duties in
Nottingham, he found that his father, Constable Tony
Flint, a dog-handler, was one of his team's allocated
police escorts
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