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Update: 7:30am
Crews left the scene at 1:28am, after confirming the area was completely cool.
Update: 12:11am
Relief crews have now taken over and the road is expected to be open very shortly
Update: 11:34pm
Station Manager Dave Walpole has confirmed that the fire is now 95% out and crews are continuing to cool down any remaining hotspots.
Relief crews have been organised to take over at around midnight.
Firefighters were called to a property in Tilbury in the early hours of the morning, when a smoke alarm alerted an occupant to a fire outside her front door.
Crews were called to Calcutta Road, Tilbury, at 3:28am, after a woman was woken by her smoke alarm and discovered a fire outside of her home. Our control team stayed on the phone as she waited for crews to arrive, issuing fire survival guidance to keep her and her son as safe as possible.
Firefighters rescued a man from the scene of a road traffic collision earlier this evening, when two cars vehicles collided on a road in Cressing.
Crews were called to a road traffic collision which happened at around 7:31pm this evening.
On arrival, firefighters reported that two cars were involved in a collision and there was one person trapped inside a car.
Crews used specialist equipment to release the casualty by 8:30pm, and he was taken to hospital shortly afterwards.
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Firefighters were called to a property in Harlow earlier this evening, when a smoke alarm alerted a mother to a fire in her sons’ bedroom.
Crews were called to Ladyshot, Harlow at 6:30pm, after a mother heard the smoke alarm sounding and discovered a fire in a bedroom.
On arrival, firefighters confirmed there was a fire in the bedroom and the room was heavily smoke-logged.
Crews extinguished the fire, and cleared the property of smoke by 6:47pm, and provided some safety advice to help prevent future fires.
Friday 18 February was an ‘exceptional day’ for the Service.
Between 10am and 9pm, the control room and crews dealt with around 500 calls, with up to 100 calls an hour during the peak of Storm Eunice.
Crews and control room staff dealt with a wide range of incidents including collapsed and damaged buildings, large fallen trees, damage to power cables and small fires.
Firefighters have issued advice to residents after being called to a chimney fire at a house in Hartington Road, Southend, today.
Fortunately, the fire was extinguished quickly and nobody was harmed.
The latest statistics show that there are approximately 7,000 chimney fires a year in England, but most of these can be prevented.
Crew Manager Adam Paterson said: "To keep yourself and your family safe from fire you should have your chimney swept regularly – at least once a year.”
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Our teams have had a busy day again today as we support Essex residents and businesses during the bad weather.
Crews have attended many incidents across the county. They have made dangerous structures and fallen electrical cables safe, dealt with trees and debris which have damaged properties and blocked roads as well as providing advice to our partner agencies and members of the public.
Firefighters were called to a fire at a bungalow in Hadleigh last night.
When crews arrived they found the fire had started in the adjoining garage but had spread to the roof space of the bungalow. They worked hard to stop it spreading to the property next door, extinguishing it by 9.51pm.
Nobody was in the property at the time. The cause has been recorded as accidental.
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service are again responding to a large number of incidents today as strong winds continue to hit the county.
The majority of the calls relate to dangerous structures and our crews will attend these when the damage could cause a threat to life or injury.
Braintree firefighters rescued a cat from a drain pipe in Great Notley earlier today.
Crews were called to Notley Green at 12:24pm to rescue the cat after it had ran into an underground drain pipe and was trapped.
Working alongside colleagues in the RSPCA, firefighters used chimney rods and a shovel to gain access to where the cat was trapped.
The cat was rescued by 2:09pm and left in the care of the RSPCA.
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