MID-Essex firefighters attended more than 2,800 incidents in 2019/20, according to official figures. Essex Fire and Rescue Service compiles data on the total amount of callouts they get for each individual station. These include fires, false alarms, and special services which include attending a road traffic collision, animal rescue and dealing with hazardous materials and flooding. The stations included are: Braintree, Burnham, Chelmsford, Coggeshall, Great Baddow, Halstead, Maldon, Sible Hedingham, South Woodham Ferrers, Tillingham, Tiptree, Tollesbury, Wethersfield, and Witham. According to the figures, crews from mid-Essex responded to a total of 2,819 incidents. Within that 29.7 per cent (839) were fires, 28.8 per cent (812) were special services, and 41.4 per cent (1,168) were false alarms.
MID-Essex firefighters attended more than 2,800 incidents in 2019/20, according to official figures. Essex Fire and Rescue Service compiles data on the total amount of callouts they get for each individual station. These include fires, false alarms, and special services which include attending a road traffic collision, animal rescue and dealing with hazardous materials and flooding. The stations included are: Braintree, Burnham, Chelmsford, Coggeshall, Great Baddow, Halstead, Maldon, Sible Hedingham, South Woodham Ferrers, Tillingham, Tiptree, Tollesbury, Wethersfield, and Witham. According to the figures, crews from mid-Essex responded to a total of 2,819 incidents. Within that 29.7 per cent (839) were fires, 28.8 per cent (812) were special services, and 41.4 per cent (1,168) were false alarms.
A WORLD-CLASS cyclist is offering to help shielding residents this Christmas by delivering their food shop after his training sessions. Maldon-born Alex Dowsett notice how the elderly were taking extra precautions in supermarkets where he lives in Great Baddow. The record-breaking 32-year-old then took to twitter to offer his help to Essex residents near him. The twitter post said: “Just got back from the supermarket and, what struck me was the elderly folk in there looking quite fearful, doubling up on face masks, makeshift hazmat suits, etc. “While we’re in Tier 4 and before Baby Dowsett arrives, I’m more than happy to go do a food shop for anyone in the Essex area who’s elderly or high risk.
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Allied men and women celebrate Christmas in Britain, in 1942
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We’re never more conscious of change and disruption than at Christmas time. It’s the one moment in the year when we are acutely aware of exactly what we should be doing. We have precious traditions – both as families and as a society – and deeply ingrained expectations of what we will do, who we will see and what we will eat.