The fire service can only act on the information received. Once the call is made a computer system spits out what resources are needed to deal with such an incident. The first fire engine in attendance can then make a decision to wether those resources are needed and if needs be can turn them back.
I should think that the fire service were compelled to help out and used it as a bit of a training exercise.
Regards SB
Idiots!! were they scared of getting their feet wet or dirty?? I could understand if it was several feet deep but seriously that water is a few inches deep, what a waste of the fire brigades time and our money. Whats this country coming to? no doubt these are the same type of people that would call an ambulance for a spained ankle!
Trucker-Lass22:
Idiots!! were they scared of getting their feet wet or dirty?? I could understand if it was several feet deep but seriously that water is a few inches deep, what a waste of the fire brigades time and our money. Whats this country coming to? no doubt these are the same type of people that would call an ambulance for a spained ankle!
Would that be an ankle covered in Paella?
near where I live the RNLI get called out on a regular basis because the dog walkers don’t put leads on the dogs when out walking the cliff paths . Dog chases birds , dog goes over cliff edge and falls to the rocks below . Owner calls the RNLI to collect the dogs body from the rocks. i asked if this was an appropriate use of the lifeboats - won’t do that again - I got shot down in flames .
similar thing happened nr ringwood and the car was actually swept into the river so i can sort of see why they phone fire brigade
Mite only be a few inches deep but i wouldnt like to stand in that water, looks pretty fast flowing to me. Dont get me wrong though im not defending the driver.
I can’t believe the kids needed a check by the ambulance crew 
Why? Presumably dad got the car stuck, after about twenty minutes when the fire brigade boys have sorted their [zb] out they lift the kids out from the dry inside of the car over to mum and dad, where dad has a grump on and mum is giving him evils for wrecking the car ("It’ll be alright love… 
" “If you say so Roger!” 
) and that’s it.
At what point did a medical incident happen?
I could not bellieve why a family got them out,the car engine stopped,or stalled in a foot of water in a stream,they were trying to cross,near Lyndhurst,in the New Forest.
Following protocol,and health and safety,two firemen stood down stream,wearing safety hats,immersion suits,and ropes to catch their work mates or the occupants of the day trippers,a full crew,also donned in kit,similar to a major RNLI rescue attempt in force ten gales in the north atlantic walked the family to safety,for a recovery truck to pull out the car in a foot of water.
Did the driver not think to get out of the car,i suppose the rescue of high peril and fatal consequences could be put down to a training exercise.Where is the common sense gone,i would bill the car driver for expenses.
Would I call the fire service - no I wouldn’t, I’d get out and walk, and when I was on dry land I’d call a recovery firm. Charge them?? Yes, and not just for the call out, but in the word’s wider sense for wasting emergency services time. It isn’t as though there weren’t indicators that the levels were a bit higher than normal, and I bet the stall was caused by the ‘wave’ caused by speed. We’ve gone through deeper than that even in a vintage car. Disgusting waste of public money, time and facilities whilst someone who really needed the service may have had to go without. Obviously they didn’t want to get their feet wet!
I cant see the fire brigade turning out just to save somebody from getting wet feet. No doubt the fire brigade acted upon the information receieved and once in attendance were obliged to deal with the situation, maybe they decided to make use of the situation and use it as an exercise? Nonetheless, if the occupants of the car called out the fire brigade then they should foot the bill without doubt.
Tiger.
I saw that what a load of bll*s, talk about over reacting, not to mention wasting public money. Most people would have just got out and got there family to safety, I think it was a set up for the telly.
Put it in first gear and use the starter motor to drag it on to dry land.
I saw this programme this morning too and thought what an overhyped incident!!
Why couldn’t the Firemen who were dressed as if they were about to tackle a force 12 gale in the Atlantic Ocean put a tow rope on the back of the car,tie it to the front of the engine and pull the car out.
Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill!!!
I’d have sacked the man in charge for that poor state of affairs.
Maybe the filmcrew were the same ones who film the Stobart series and wanted to over dramatise the problem and asked Hamps fire brigade to make it look like a disater movie.
Santa:
Put it in first gear and use the starter motor to drag it on to dry land.
done that! but i was in a landrover and the water was halfway up the doors (inside and out!) my fault, i went in too fast and drowned the electrics… didn’t call the fire brigade though!
Put it in first gear and use the starter motor to drag it on to dry land.
that can be expensive as every time you flick it to starter cause there no exhaust but suction there’s a chance you can draw water up the exhaust and water don’t compress so bent valves etc. deffo a recovery company’s job not fire brigade
bloody grockals !
Didn’t see the programme, but couldn’t the driver just carry the passengers to dry land and then push the car out? Massive over-reaction by the fire brigade by the sounds of things. I can understand using all that kit in something like the Boscastle floods but not in a foot of water.
These guys have just got like jackets on without all that other stuff and they’re more likely to need it They’ve got the right idea. :
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K5Project:
Put it in first gear and use the starter motor to drag it on to dry land.
that can be expensive as every time you flick it to starter cause there no exhaust but suction there’s a chance you can draw water up the exhaust and water don’t compress so bent valves etc. deffo a recovery company’s job not fire brigade
if its stopped already they have done the damage as likely water has been sucked into the engine from the very low air intake on the car…would of been cheaper recovery as well as recovery will now charge for pulling out of the water as well as tow home…
Thats just plain stupid everyone knows it should have been the coastguard they called.
bazza123:
These guys have just got like jackets on without all that other stuff and they’re more likely to need it
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Looks like a few tiles have come off the sub, was it flood damage? Better call the fire brigade
Tiger