Acetylene fire at Knights Bridge Farm
Oxfordshire County Council Fire and Rescue Service were called at 10:53am on 6 January 2012 to reports of an Acetylene Cylinder on fire at Knightsbridge Farm, on the A44, near Yarnton.
Around thirty five firefighters on five rescue pumps from Rewley Road (Oxford), Woodstock, Kidlington & Eynsham, along with three specialist support vehicles attended the incident, with initial crews in attendance within ten minutes of the initial call.
On arrival crews were faced with a fire involving an acetylene cylinder located within a workshop on the site. Acetylene is a potentially explosive hazardous material and specialist officers deployed a tactical plan to resolve the incident.
The swift actions of the first attending crews evacuated the site and implemented safety cordons to ensure the safety of all the members of the public.
Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus using specialist thermal imaging and digital remote thermometers assessed the scene and extinguished the fire making the cylinders safe.
The Incident Commander, Station Manager Chris Wilson commented: “Crews have worked hard to tackle this fire, it was a challenging site with a major road and rail network passing close by. Fire fighters continue to work through the day following national procedures to deal with cooling phase of the incident”
