Official account for Lytham Fire Station
@LancashireFRS
. On Call Firefighters serving their community. Account not 24 hours. DO NOT REPORT EMERGENCIES HERE.
👏 Thank you to the road users of Lytham & Warton today.
🚨 “You should look and listen for ambulances, fire engines, police, doctors or other emergency vehicles using flashing blue, red or green lights and sirens or flashing headlights.”
#Lytham
#FireandRescue
#OnCall
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We are heading back to Lytham after 6 hours at the Winter Hill moorland 🔥 great organisation and teamwork amongst various agencies. Big shout out to the Rapid Relief Team for keeping crews hydrated and well fed throughout
👩🚒 Watch Manager Paul Farman taking a back seat returning from a call out today with Connor and Callum on their best behaviour.
🚒 We have 11 Firefighters in Lytham and we will introduce them all to you over the coming weeks.
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
#MeetTheCrew
🚨📟🚨INC 23:47 Building Fire North Promenade, Lytham St Annes.
@LancashireFRS
ten pumps and two ALPS. First BA Wears for FFs Kelly & Stubbs 💪💪💪. Cakes 🍰 for tonight’s BA Drill!!! 🔥🚒💦💦
🚨📟🚨INC 13:12 - Fire In The Open, Lytham Green, Lytham. Barbecue spread fire to grass. Crew used hosereel to damp down. Please don't leave bottles or glass behind as sunlight shining through glass can start a fire. Put out cigarettes, matches & BBQ's before disposal 🔥🚒💦💦
Congratulations FF Farman
@paul_farman
winner of the Golden Alerter Award 2018 🥇📟 (number of callouts/ hours covered). Paul provides 120+ hours on call every week alongside his full time estate agent job. In 2018 he responded to 168 emergency calls 🌟👨🚒🚨📟🚒
🚒 We have a new Fire engine driver in Lytham!
👏 Congratulations to FF Paul on passing LGV test this week for
@LancashireFRS
👩🚒 Our crew are always developing new skills with refreshers and new courses.
👩🚒👩🚒 Meet your Lytham crew coming soon….
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
📟 1:00 First call out for FF Oli last night after having his alerter for less than 4 hours!
🚒
@LancashireFRS
assisted with a flooding incident.
👩🚒 (Paul, Oli, Snappers, Frankie)
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
#OnCall
Here’s a video of the boat well alight 🔥🔥 before our arrival. We were in attendance within 6 minutes of being paged 📟🚨 from our homes. Video credit: Paige Keeton
👩🚒 Did you know we have 12 on call firefighters at Lytham?
✈️ Their day jobs range from solicitor, plumber, DJ, Estate agent and even a pilot!
🚒 Each giving between 40 - 120hrs per WEEK to keep the local community safe.
🎄During December we will introduce them all on here!
@LancashireFRS
Western Area Firefighters Fundraising. On the 26th of January we will be walking from Lytham to Bispham (11 miles) in full fire kit & breathing apparatus. Money will go towards supporting the victims, the firefighters and the volunteers
🚒 This afternoon we were called out to a waste fire in Warton.
🔥 Was dealt with safely and contained so not to spread.
👩🚒 Firefighters Paul, Connor and Callum from Lytham plus Watch manager Paul F cleaning the pump after returning to station.
@LancashireFRS
#Lytham
#Fire
🚒 Multiple training sessions on station this week, flood suits, BA search & rescue, and an introduction to incident command for those further into their FF development.
🚒 Always ready to go whatever the call is….
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
👩🚒 Today we had THREE new Firefighters complete their training course at
@LfrsStc
and join Lytham station, Kian, Amanda and Alfie.
🏆 Congratulations to Amanda on getting the Outstanding student award at
@LancashireFRS
🚒 Welcome to the crew!
#Lytham
#NewRecruits
#Proud
🚨📟🚨INC 15:34 - Road Traffic Collision, Kirkham Bypass, Kirkham. Vehicle smoking, no persons trapped. Reality of being an on call firefighter demonstrated by Acting Crew Manager Holden. When alerter goes, you drop the brushes!!!
#RDS
#oncallfirefighters
🔥🚒💦💦
⚠️ Shout out to 2 of our crew;
FF Paul OBrien who passed Breathing apparatus refresher and FF Connor Ward who completed Trauma training today at
@LancashireFRS
✅ Always training, Always developing.
🚒 And straight back on duty for Lytham.
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
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🚒 Even on a Sunday we are doing equipment checks, making sure everything is in place, cleaned and working as it should.
🛠️ We have weekly and monthly checks on all our kit on the pump and on the station.
✅ A strong pass today!
#Lytham
#EquipmentChecks
#FireAndRescue
👩🚒 More training with our friends from
@Wesham_Fire
this afternoon.
🪜 We practised ladders, casualty carry downs, 💦 and hose drills including replacing a burst length quick time.
🚒 Oli being outnumbered by the girls today on the pump!
#Lytham
#Wesham
#FireAndRescue
💧6 New 70mm hoses on our pump from today!
🚒 We carry 1 x 45mm and 6 x 70mm lay flat hoses per side
☔️ Also 19mm hose reel each side, and is usually out first weight of attack when water is needed.
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
👩🚒 Tonight some of the Lytham crew joined
@StAnnesFire
in a joint training drill.
🔥 Lots of good learning.
🚒 Cleaning the pumps after so they are good to go to the next call out.
#Lytham
#StAnnes
#FireAndRescue
⭐️ Great news for Lytham!
🎉 On Monday nights between 12am and 6am Lytham fire station will be turning into a nightclub with a resident DJ!
🧼 FOAM PARTY TONIGHT!
#SaveTheDate
#CheckTheDate
📟 Lytham (off duty) Firefighters finding out alerters work at 3000ft over the Lake District!
✈️ Captain Oli, 1st Officer Paul, Cabin crew Connor & new recruit Amanda now on the ground ready to respond.
🚒
@LancashireFRS
#Lytham
🚗 RTC training with
@Wesham_Fire
- A car on its side, and then removal of a door and a dashboard lift.
🚒 Ironically shortly after this training we did this for real.
✅ Always training, always learning.
#Lytham
#Wesham
#FireAndRescue
🚒 Tonight the crew set up a “water relay”
👩🚒 Pumping from an open water supply to a portable pump into our appliance then into a ground monitor.
🌊 This would be used when a water hydrant isn’t close but a river or lake is.
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
#DrillNight
#FireFighters
☃️ Even at -3’c we’re still outside practicing our pumps and ladder drills with
@Wesham_Fire
, pumping from open water, into the 2nd and 3rd floor of the drill tower, useful for a tall building fire when we have to get water from a nearby lake or pond. 🚒
#Lytham
#Wesham
#Baltic
🚒 Working on our casualty carry down with ladders, using safe techniques to rescue people from second floor windows.
👩🚒 New recruit Alfie’s first time in the pump also.
❤️ A poignant “Father / Son” moment on photo 3!
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
#Family
🚒 Making sure our appliance in Lytham is clean and in tip top condition.
👨🚒 FF Alfie Wilkinson doing a fantastic job being supervised by dad, FF Craig Wilkinson.
#Lytham
#Family
#FireAndRescue
🚒 Today we’re doing a SSRI at
@LythamHall
which means checking Site Specific Risk Information is up to date and checking every thing is in place in an event of an emergency.
✅ Happy to say the management and volunteers do an amazing job here!
#LythamHall
#Lytham
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🚒 Tonight’s training drill was Breathing Apparatus, with search & rescue and firefighting on station.
🔥 Fire extinguished and casualties rescued ✅
👩🚒 We train every Tuesday 7pm-9pm, if you’re interesting in joining
@LancashireFRS
come down have a chat with any of the crew.
🚒 Last nights training drill involved RTC, getting a casualty who was trapped out of a car efficiently.
✂️ Doors and roof removed and dashboard lifted to create space to safely extricate casualty.
👩🚒 We train every Tuesday 7pm-9pm in Lytham.
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
#RTC
‼️FREE‼️ Tour Of The Fire Engine & Station
@LythamFire
for the next five followers who take us up to 1,000!!! 👊 Visit includes chocolate covered biscuits, non alcoholic beverage and a press of the nee naw button 🚨🔥🚒💦💦
🪜 Starting 2024 with Ladder drills!
👩🚒 Lytham crew pitched a 13.5 metre ladder to the 2nd and 3rd floor of the drill tower, using standard pitch, restricted pitch and over an obstacle with a crew of 5.
🚒 Useful to gain entry to different heights and types of properties.
👩🚒 Another great training day with our friends over the train tracks in
@Wesham_Fire
🪜 Ladder drill
🚒 Pumping water with 3 different hoses
⛓️ Hauling equipment up to the 2nd floor
⛰️ Working at height
👏 Lots of great learning and development taken on today by the crew.
🚨📟🚨INC 22:43- Standby at Wigan Fire Station
@manchesterfire
. On route we were mobilised to a commercial building 🔥 in Burscough (released prior to stop). Back on route to Wigan we got a small 🔥 in the open before standing by
@Wiganfireteam
. We are now returning home station.
📟 Early wake up call for us this morning.
🔥 Bin fire in Ansdell extinguished then back to bed for some, others catching up on admin.
🚒 Here for you in an emergency 24/7.
#Lytham
#Fire
#FireAndRescue
👩🚒 Great water rescue training tonight at Fairhaven lake, we used throw lines, inflatable hoses and practiced different techniques with them both.
⬆️ Still waiting for Jamie’s throw line to land, currently passing the International Space Station….
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
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👩🚒 Tonight’s drill on station was a talk through and checks with the RTC equipment UNTIL…
📟 Called out to an incident.
🚒 Kit back on the pump quick time then off we go!
#Lytham
#FireAndRescue
🚒 And that’s a wrap - Bonfire night 2023.
🔥 An eventful evening for Lytham crew but hopefully that’s it!
👩🚒 Want to join our crew? There is still time, click the link for more information.