It’s been an eventful day for crews at Newton Abbot’s fire station today (Thursday, March 18).

Both pumps ended up attending three incidents in the Teignbridge area and were also called on for standby studies at Torquay’s fire station.

The first call out saw crews assisting their police colleagues with an incident in the Teigngrace area that required crews to be stood-by dressed in floodsuits while Exmouth’s Special Rescue Team launched their powerboat.

Following on from this one Newton crew was mobilised, along with an appliance from Bovey Tracey, to reports of a road traffic collision just off the A380 on Telegraph Hill.

On arrival crews discovered that a van and a car had been involved in a collision resulting in the van rolling over and coming to rest on its side.

Fortunately the occupants were uninjured and had escaped from their own vehicles.

Crews isolated the batteries of both vehicles in order to make them safe and also used absorbent pads to clean up fluid leaking from the van.

While returning from this incident the crew were then mobilised to assist the police at a possible rescue from height situation in the Kingsteignton area.

As this incident was ongoing Newton’s second appliance was mobilised to Torquay Fire Station to provide immediate fire cover for the Torbay area whilst Torquay dealt with an incident.