Consett (Number One Industrial Estate) 1 st November 2018 Incident - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Fire at Gardner Aerospace, Consett

(Number One Industrial Estate) 1st November 2018

Incident location

Location of premises Location of initial fire

Make up of fire appliances

Initial call 14:14 (2 pumps mobilised) Make pumps 3 14:16 Make pumps 5 14:19 Make pumps 6 14:39 Make pumps 8 15:02 48 minutes from initial call to make pumps 8

• Stop message - 20:34
• Crew re-visits – 23:30/ 06:00
• Incident handover – 07:30

Additional resources/ external support

CDDFRS additional resources Partner agency support

Key points

• CAV aerospace taken over by Gardener

aerospace – 15th October 2018

• Primary employer/ local impact
• BA teams re-committed to incident

several times

• In excess of 20 BA cylinders used

during incident

• Operational Risk Information/ on-site

specialist available

• Crew rotation/ reliefs
• Multi agency working
• Media interest

Fire Investigation/ Post incident considerations

• Contractors working on tanks used to

acid strip aircraft wings

• Sparks from angle grinder entered

extraction system

• Oil and dust build up in extraction

system

• Sparks may have ignited the oil soaked

fibres/ dust

• Fire drawn along extraction system

causing it to spread

• Crew welfare
• Internal level 2 & 3 de-brief
• Operational learning
• Business fire safety inspection

Any questions?