Fireplace and Rescue Service crews in Lanarkshire have been given a uncommon alternative to hold out a reside rescue train on a Scottish Water development website.
Amey-Binnies who're delivering the flood alleviation undertaking, arrange the emergency train utilizing the 13-metre-deep sewage tank they're putting in in Wellgate automobile park in Lanark.
Scottish Water is investing £2.5m to cut back the danger of sewer flooding within the city by constructing the large underground storm tank and putting in new sewer pipes.
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Amey-Binnies recurrently undertakes emergency rescue drills on initiatives and website supervisor Willie McAllister contacted native fireplace companies to see if they might have an interest.
He stated: “The ‘hands-on’ coaching concerned the restoration of an injured individual from the underside of the storm tank utilizing ropes.
“It was of nice operational profit for everybody concerned, notably for the hearth and rescue service because the crews had been stored at nighttime till they arrived on website.”
SFRS station commander Philip Macdonald thanked everybody concerned in delivering the partnership occasion.
He instructed Lanarkshire Reside : "This train introduced collectively our crews and Operations Management colleagues to boost our present abilities, data and expertise of advanced line rescue incidents.
"The footage taken on the occasion will likely be developed right into a studying package deal to profit much more workers throughout the Service."
Throughout excessive climate occasions, extra water will spill into the brand new tank and be saved there earlier than being pumped again into the sewer community as soon as water ranges there have fallen.
The undertaking – which will even see new sewer pipes put in in neighbouring Bernard’s Wynd – is on schedule to be accomplished by the top of July.
Georgina Reid, Scottish Water’s company affairs supervisor within the west, stated: “This was an important instance of collaboration, and our supply companions contributing to the coaching and improvement of the emergency companies on a reside Scottish Water undertaking.
“Serving our communities is on the coronary heart of the whole lot we do, and guaranteeing our workforce is stored protected always is a high precedence.
“This was a superb alternative for our SFRS to undertake important coaching in a real-life scenario.”
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