Industrial fire training for crews

A TRAINING exercise has tested Rotherham firefighters on how they would respond to a large incident at an industrial premises.

Dozens of firefighters took part in the training at Culina Ambient in Hellaby which was designed to test the plans that are in place to deal with an incident on the site.

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue regularly carries out training exercises at commercial premises to make sure plans work well.

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Station manager Dave Scully said: “Exercises such as this are vitally important for two reasons. First, they give our crews excellent experience of dealing with bringing realistic scenarios to life in real time. Second, they help both us and the business to test the procedures that we have in place to deal with a major emergency on their site.

“How we work alongside our emergency service partners – known as interoperability – is another important aspect to training like this, as there is much we can continue to learn from one another about our ways of responding to incidents.”