Incidents

Vehicle Fire – Wimborne

29th May, 2026 at 22:11

This evening we received several calls to a motorcycle on fire on Rowlands Hill in Wimborne Minster. A crew from Wimborne fire station attended and extinguished the fire using one hose reel jet. The motorcycle was 100% destroyed by fire.

RTC Persons Trapped – Weymouth

29th May, 2026 at 9.22pm

Crew from Portland Fire Station were returning from training and came across a RTC Persons Trapped on Manor Roundabout Weymouth which involved a single vehicle and Police booked in attendance at the same time.  For medical reasons the male driver awaited attendance of Amb to self extricate and casualty was left in Amb Care whilst crews made vehicle safe.

Fire in the Open Small – Bournemouth

29th May, 2026 at 8.47pm

Crew from Springbourne Fire Station attended reports of a fire in the open near Beach Hut on Boscombe Promenade.  The fire was out on arrival extinguished by members of the public and crew continued to dampen down using 1 hose reel jet to prevent escalation

Hazmat Large – Cranborne

29th May, 2026 at 7.40pm

Crews from Cranborne, Verwood and Ringwood and a Hazardous Material Officer attended an incident involving a leak from a Heating Oil Tank.  Crews were able to contain a potential large leak of heating oil into the ground using an environmental kit  and waited for local heating engineer to attend to continue to make safe

Fire vehicle – Tidworth

29th May, 2026 at 12:51

A crew from Amesbury were mobilised to a vehicle fire in Pennings Road Tidworth. The owner of the vehicle had extinguished the fire using three extinguishers. Crews continued cooling using one hose reel jet.

Fire on cliff edge – Eype

29th May, 2026 at 09:23

Area: Dorset

A crew from Bridport were mobilised to reports of a fire on the cliff edge by Eype beach.  Upon arrival, crews discovered two separate fires, both out on arrival.

Fire vehicle – Salwayash

29th May, 2026 at 13;17

A crew from Bridport were mobilised to a van fire in Dottery Road, Salwayash. Crews located a fire in the engine bay of a small commercial vehicle. They extinguished the fire using one hose reel jet.

Gas leak – Ferndown

28th May, 2026 at 12.14pm

We received a call at 12.14pm this afternoon with reports that a vehicle had struck a small gas main on Ferndown Industrial Estate. Crews from Ferndown and Wimborne are currently in attendance along with Dorset Police and the Gas Board. A 25m exclusion zone is in place and 200 people have been evacuated whilst the area is made safe.

4pm update: The incident has been scaled back to one appliance and a relief crew from Redhill park is now in attendance. The exclusion zone remains in place.

 

Garden fire – Swindon

27th May, 2026 at 11:05am

On the 27th of  May Swindon and Westlea crews attended to reports of an out of control bonfire in a residents back garden. Crews worked to extinguish the fire using 3 main jets after it had spread to the trees, fence and shed.