Road traffic collision: two casualties freed

Firefighters freed two casualties following a road traffic collision in Manningtree today.

We were called by Essex Police to a collision involving a single vehicle in the town's High Street at 11.42am.

Crews from Manningtree and Colchester attended and found two people trapped in a 4x4. 

They used specialist equipment, including electric saws and hydraulic lifting equipment, to free the casualties at 12.38pm and left them in the care of the Ambulance Service.

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Manningtree's firefighters are on-call firefighters; people who all live or work within 5 minutes of an on-call fire station and are paid to attend all sorts of incidents.

If you live or work within 5 minutes of an on-call fire station, you could be an on-call firefighter. Find out more about the role at join.essex-fire.gov.uk/on-call