Incidents
Kent Fire and Rescue Service attends a range of incidents including fires, road crashes, flooding, rescues from height, mud or confined spaces. It also supports other agencies including Kent Police, South East Coast Ambulance Service and the Martime and Coastguard Agency on a regular basis.
The incidents shown on this page are just a sample of those which may be of interest to the public and media.
| Update: Alkham standing corn fire | UPDATE: 6.50pm
A fire involving approximately 200 hectares of cornfields in Alkham Valley, near Dover has been brought under control. Early advice to residents to keep windows and doors closed as... | 25/07/2018 15:32 | 25/07/2018 17:23 | 10 |
| Industrial building fire - Chatham docks | Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to a fire in a large industrial building on the Chatham docks. Ten fire engines, as well as specialist units including a high volume pump and height vehicle,... | 21/05/2017 03:00 | 21/05/2017 21:51 | 10 |
| Large rubbish fire on Medway City Estate | UPDATE: 10:30
The main seats of the fire are now extinguished and a mechanical digger is being used to expose remaining hot spots which are being damped down with a hand held jet. Crews managed to... | 07/06/2015 17:34 | 08/06/2015 09:32 | 10 |
| Fire in Canterbury | MONDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE
Crews have now left the scene of this fire and the duty of care has been passed back to the building owners.
6am MONDAY UPDATE
Crews remained at the scene overnight on... | 04/07/2015 14:28 | 06/07/2015 13:20 | 10 |
| Large fire in Wrotham | Update 9am (30 November):
Two fire engines remain at the scene of a fire involving workshops and garages in Tower Industrial Estate, Wrotham, damping down hotspots. Firefighters worked through the... | 29/11/2015 17:58 | 30/11/2015 11:58 | 10 |
| Latest update on large fire at Brands Hatch workshop | UPDATE: 1.55pm
Firefighters are expected to remain at Brands Hatch until around 2.30pm today, after a large fire broke out in a workshop overnight. Crews have been using a jet to cool oxyacetylene... | 07/11/2017 00:37 | 07/11/2017 14:25 | 9 |
| Canterbury Kebab house fire | Friday, 27 October 8.30am UPDATE
Around 45 firefighters, eight fire engines, a height vehicle and command support unit were called to reports of a chimney fire in a kebab shop in St Dunstan’s... | 26/10/2017 20:21 | 27/10/2017 00:04 | 8 |
| Latest Update: Corn field fire in West Malling | Update: 5pm
Advice to residents to keep windows and doors closed near the A228 West Malling Bypass due to a nearby field fire has now been lifted. Attendance to the incident has been reduced to... | 17/07/2018 13:10 | 17/07/2018 16:57 | 8 |
| Fire at recycling centre - Northfleet | Update 10pm - Sunday, 22 April 2018
Firefighters remain at the scene of a large fire involving a single storey industrial unit used as a recycling and waste collection plant in New Barn Road,... | 21/04/2018 18:30 | | 8 |
| Derelict building fire in Folkestone | Update: 9am - Tuesday 13 August
The derelict building fire in Folkestone is now out. Crews wearing breathing apparatus used main jets and hose reel jets to tackle the blaze, which had spread to... | 12/08/2019 20:38 | 12/08/2019 23:57 | 8 |
