Essex County Fire and Rescue Service completed 16,347 Home Fire Safety Visits in 2025–26, a 52% increase on the previous year ...

An Essex fire dog has been commended by the national vet charity PDSA to recognise a decade of life-saving service.

Firefighters have been working throughout the afternoon to put out an industrial fire in Sturmer Road, New England. At its height, around 50 firefighters from Essex and Suffolk worked together to put ...

Crews have issued safety advice after a tumble dryer fire destroyed a summerhouse in Hockley. We were called to Broad Close yesterday (Tuesday 3 March) at 7.32pm and crews from Rayleigh Weir and ...

Firefighters are giving electrical safety advice after an overloaded plug socket caught a bedroom alight in Thurrock. Watch Manager Steve Barclay said: “We believe the fire was caused by an overloaded ...

Harlow is a wholetime fire station, which means firefighters are based at the station 24/7. Hawkwell is an on-call fire station, which means firefighters living and working within 5 minutes of the ...

Our Annual Report and Fire and Rescue Statement looks back on the progress we have made during the first year of our Community Risk Management Plan, including key achievements, outcomes and the ...

An investigation has recorded the cause of the fire, which destroyed three caravans, as accidental. An electrical fault was the most likely cause. The fire is now out, and crews will remain on-site to ...

Six crews were called to an industrial unit fire in Clacton Road, Great Holland at 11:51pm. On arrival, crews reported an industrial unit containing around 100 tonnes of domestic waste was 100% alight ...

Firefighters from Dunmow, Newport, Brentwood and Saffron Walden were called to a light aircraft crash in Stebbing this afternoon. On arrival, crews worked with Police, Ambulance Service and the Air ...

Firefighters were called to a field fire near Bovingdon Road, Braintree at 1:23pm. On arrival, crews reported a field fire was affecting around six acres and had started to spread across a road to ...