Our man in Tenerife

Our "man" in Tenerife sent an urgent email this week, stating that he had at long last tracked down where Terry had retired to.

Readers will remember that Terry retired from the Ambulance Service a month or so ago and since then we haven't seen him with claims of him working on his bath room and kitchen.

Well at last we found him, yes in fact Terry is selling swimwear and ladies underwear out in Tenerife, perhaps the shop name could have been a little more original but when your in a panic to leave the country I guess you use what come in your head first.

Fireworks

Operation Purbeck went well at Wytch Farm, the only problem now is that it creates more admin to update the plans.

Last night being the 5th November a patrol headed out to monitor fireworks around the patch, sadly the 5th November sees a large number of maritime flares being used instead of fireworks and this can lead to problems when fired near to the coast.

So with firework parties tonight and Saturday, please don't fire your old flares, rescue units could be sent out wasting time and money.

Exercise Purbeck

Anyone around Norden Park & Ride tomorrow morning might be a little concerned whats going on? Probably a line of Police,Fire and Ambulances (oh and the Coastguard) vehicles, ready to head down to Wytch Farm.

Wytch Farm? what is that a large farm? Yes there is a farm there but its BP's Wytch Farm gathering station, IE where BP pump oil out the ground and send it off for processing.
Tomorrow is an exercise to test the emergency services and see if the "plan" goes right.

This year is the 1st year that Coastguard ground units have been invited as its been identified that during an incident the heath might need to be evacuated so that's our role to be tested!

So if you hear the emergency alarms at 09.00 tomorrow morning its a test (I hope)

Busman's Holiday

One of the team is currently on holiday in Tenerife and we got this report from him....

My mid afternoon siesta.....(his usual) after a bottle of cold San Miguel on the balcony was rudely interrupted by the Tenerife Coastguard ripping out of the harbour to rescue a yacht.

What it didn't say was he decided not to go down and collect details when they returned !!

Meanwhile I noticed that the "pirates" off Somali claimed they were "Coastguards !" well clearly Coast guarding around the World is different, but those passing Dancing Ledge should feel safe as we are not those sort of Coastguards but the ones that rescue people in distress, not cause distress!

Carpets

As well as the garage floor, we also had the carpets changed in the office and training room.

The original carpet was not up to the heavy bashing of Coastguard boots so was changed.

All we have to remember is NOT to walk on the carpet with muddy boots!

Storage!

Every space was used up during the lastest work at the station..

Not the best place for the chairs in the shower room!

Update

Sorry for the lack of blogs this week, but we have been busy at the station.

For those of you using the recycling centre at the Car Park,you will have noticed the a large container and the vehicle parked outside the station for the last two weeks.

The main task here was to cover the garage floor and stop it being so dusty.

The special coating ready to go down, the garage had to be striped out of all the equipment, whilst the stuff was laid.

Thankfully every thing is back in now