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Fire service historian and author
Roger Mardon
www.romar.org.uk
Shortly after 08.00 hours on Sunday, 6 June 2004 Kent Fire & Rescue Service received a call to an explosion in Abbey Street, Faversham. Two terraced houses were completely destroyed and 22 others were damaged. There was only one casualty, an elderly woman who was taken to hospital and later reported to be in a stable condition in intensive care.
Ten pumps, with supporting appliances, attended and at the height of the incident 80 firefighters were at the scene, including the urban search and rescue team based at Maidstone.
The attendance, excluding relief crews, comprised
Faversham RPL, P
Teynham P
MAKE PUMPS 6
Sittingbourne RPL
Whitstable RPL
Canterbury P
FCU REQUIRED
Canterbury FCU
Canterbury RPL as support pump
ISU REQUIRED
Strood PM + ISU
Strood RPL as support pump
continued
USAR REQUIRED
Maidstone USAR
MAKE PUMPS 10
Ashford RPL
Sturry P
Maidstone RPL
Whitstable P
Sittingbourne PM + ICU
Cliffe P as support pump
ALP REQUIRED
Medway ALP (became defective)
Thames-
The following pages contain photographs of the scene.
For appliance types and abbreviations see here
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