Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service Eastern Station

03/06/2026

🚒 Every child deserves a safe place to learn, play, and grow.

As part of Child Safety Week, we're encouraging parents, carers, and guardians to take a few moments to discuss fire safety with their children.

🔥Key fire safety tips:

✅ Tell someone straight away, a grown up if possible

✅ Never play with matches and lighters

✅ Plan and practise a home escape route.

✅ Teach children what to do if they discover a fire.

✅ Know how to call 999 in an emergency.

✅ Never go back inside for anything

✅ Get outside as quickly as possible. Don't try to hide from the fire


By working together, we can help prevent accidents and keep children safe.

🚨 Remember. Check you smoke alarms!

🗒️ Useful links: https://capt.org.uk/child-safety-week/

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30/05/2026

Here at Eastern we are becoming very concerned of a trend we are seeing significantly more often.

This is the lack of seatbelts being worn by drivers and their passengers in and around parts of Leicester.

Last night while at an incident one of our crew had to strongly advise a driver of their legal responsibilities to secure their children in the correct seats and to have a seatbelt on.

This simple device can and will save your life and stop you being injured further in an impact with another vehicle.

If you are carrying children, you must ensure you have them in the correct type of seat.

Here at Eastern we are becoming very concerning of a trend we are seeing significantly more.

This is the lack of seatbelts being worn by drivers and their passengers in and around parts of Leicester.

Last night while at an incident one of our crew had to strongly advise a driver of their legal responsibilities to secure their children in the correct seats and to have a seatbelt on.

This simple device can and will save your life and stop you being injured further in an impact with another vehicle.

If you are carrying children, you must ensure you have them in the correct type of seat.

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13/05/2026

🚒This week is mental health awareness week.

👨‍🚒The job that our firefighters and control room staff can be at times not be a very nice job.

🔥Our crews will experience sights and sounds of traumatic incidents; each person will deal with each experience differently and can take its toll on the individual and their families over their career.

📱We have a number of support systems in place from the support of the crew/watch to our dedicated support systems in the service.

👨‍🚒The Firefighters charity are also there to support current and retired members but also our families who often are the unsung supporters of our crew members when away from work

🚶‍♂️We also have a walk and talk group in Leicestershire open to anyone who has been part of fire service in operational roles or support roles. If you would like to attend please send the page a message and we will get the organisers to get in touch with you

https://www.firefighterscharity.org.uk/how-we-can-help/mental-health

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12/05/2026

🚒Last night both appliances from Blue watch Eastern attended a house fire which had started in a bedroom.

🔥On arrival crews were faced with a developing fire within the property, with the potential for fire spread to neighbouring homes.

🧑‍🚒Initially 2 firefighters wearing breathing apparatus under rapid deployment quickly located and extinguished the fire, preventing further fire spread and limiting damage to surrounding properties. Crews worked quickly and efficiently to bring the incident under control.

🚒Crews were later supported by the Turntable Ladder from Central Station along with additional assistance from Birstall crews.

🚒Once the incident was made safe, crews remained on scene carrying out further checks and ventilation before ensuring occupants had the appropriate help with short term accommodation.

🚨Remember. Check your smoke alarms!

04/05/2026

🚒This Morning one of our appliances from Eastern was covering at Southern Station.

🚒232 was mobilised to building fire next to a Thatched Property in Cosby.

🔥On arrival crews found fire spreading along the roof and external part of the building towards the thatched building which is over 600 years old and currently home of tithe barn

👨‍🚒 Initally 2 firefighters using breathing apperatus with Hose Reels under rapid deployment attacked the fire and stopped fire spreading further. Crews were initially assisted by one our off-duty firefighters and building owner.

🔥On arrival of further resources 4 firefighters in breathing apparatus fully extinguished the fire and began to cut away damaged areas of the building.

🚒On leaving the scene crews handed control of the building back to the building owner with crews returning later today to re inspect the damaged roof area of the property.

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28/04/2026

🏊‍♂️It is Water awareness week here in leicestershire we may be land locked but we have many rivers and Canals and most will have a trip to the coast here in the UK or abroad
But...

🌊Would you know how to help if you saw someone in trouble in the water?
☎️ PHONE - call 999 for help
🌊FLOAT - tell the person to float on their back
🌊THROW - if there's a flotation device nearby, throw it to the person

Please watch the video from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service
Find out more 👉https://nfcc.org.uk/our-services/campaigns/be-water-aware/

27/04/2026

🟢It was an eventful end of shift for green watch yesterday.

🚒The crew was mobilised to a hedge fire spreading to neighbouring properties in Tilton on the Hill.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦On arrival crews were met by the residents who all worked together using their own hosepipes to stop fire spreading to the houses.

👍We must say well done and thank you to all the residents who worked together at the incidents before our arrival.

🚒 On our arrival we took over from the local residence and used one Hose Reel Jet to damp down area and make area safe

🚑As we were leaving this incident, we were tasked to assist EMAS and Air Ambulance for a BMX rider in woodland with serious injuries.

👨‍🚒Crews assisted in the extrication of the casualty also making access back to the vehicles while Critical Care Doctors helped the injured rider who was taken to major trauma unit in Nottingham.

🚒 Both these incidents were in Billesdons area, which is our neighbouring on call station.

📟If you live within 6 minutes of Billesdon fire station and would be interested in an additional income and learning new skills including driving fire appliances once you have completed your probation period please message our page or follow the link in the comment below.

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27/04/2026

🚨Two incidents of note for Eastern over the last week:

🚒On Saturday we attended a flat fire caused by unattended cooking. This came into Fire Control as an alarm sounding.

🔥Upon arrival, smoke was found to be issuing from the kitchen window. Crews rescued 1 female casualty from the hallway of the property.

🚒The fire was quickly dealt with and the property cleared, removing the smoke using our positive pressure ventilation fan.

🍳Do not leave cooking unattended > Don't cook after taking medication that can lead to drowsiness.

🔥Make sure combustibles are not too close to the cooker top - leave a good distance for safety.

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🏢The second incident was a flat fire in student accommodation. The occupier of the flat returned to find their room full of thick, black smoke.

📱They did not panic, but closed the door and evacuated the property immediately, calling the fire service.
🔥 The fire was extinguished using 2 breathing apparatus wearers with a high pressure hose reel.

🔋Upon investigation, the cause was found to be a faulty power back left on charge.

🚪Closing the door slowed fire growth and stopped smoke spreading throughout the property.

👨‍🚒Crews used a smoke curtain to further contain the smoke and limited limit damage upon entering the fire compartment.

🚫Don't leave batteries on charge when you go out.

⚡️ Allow them to cool prior to charging.

🚫don't charge batteries, including electric bikes/scooters in exit routes such as hallways etc.

🚒 Top tip - smoke alarms will alert you to a fire in its early stages and allow time for evacuation - provided they're working.
Check them. Plan an escape route for everyone in the property.
Close doors at night. Keep safe!


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22/04/2026

This week Red Watch Eastern and Birstall undertook some joint training at watermead park to test a water stratagy for local risks.

Crews set up a open circuit water relay getting water from the lakes to the nearby industrial units and also to our aerial ladder platform.

This is also a good practice should we need to do this with summer approaching where we often have to undertake water relay at incidents in more rural areas of the county.

01/04/2026

Today Wednesday 1st April we have taken
Ownership of our newest vehicle to Eastern fire station

It was a suprise to all the watches but the new Narrow Street Responce Vehicle arrived to support us at incidents on the roads where we struggle to get our Normal pumps down.

It will have call sign of 23P4 and will have crew of 2.