Fort Augustus Fire Station

The Official Twitter Page of Fort Augustus Fire Station, In the North Service Delivery Area, of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.

[Killin Fire Station @KillinFire]

🚨Emergency Call🚨 Crew paged at 13.43hrs along with Kingussie, Newtonmore, Fort Augustus appliances & Perth heavy rescue to attend a serious RTC on the A9 near Calvine. #M24P6 #S37P6 #S65G6 #S38P6 #P01P1 #P01P2 #P01R1 🚒🚒🚒🚒

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency Call🚨 Crew were paged at 18:30 to a water rescue on Loch Tarff - Crews from Fort Augustus & Foyers attended and water rescue units from Fort William and Inverness were on-route. All persons involved were safely out of the water when fire & rescue service arrived.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency Call🚨 Crew were paged at around 12 noon (04.07.23) to reports of a fire in the open above Cannich, this turned out to be smouldering tree roots, crews used napsacks & small tools to extinguish.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency Call🚨Crews were paged at 17:25 on Sunday (07.05.23) along with kinlochleven & Appin to an automatic fire alarm that had activated at the Belford hospital in Fort William, stop message was received on route, crew were redirected to standby Fort William Fire Station

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨 Crews were paged this morning around 8:30am to an automatic fire alarm that had activated at the new hostel building at the rewilding centre in Dundreggan. This was a false alarm with good intent

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

Local Ambulance technician managed to catch this video of our machine attending an incident on the B862 this evening.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨 Crews were paged at 16:45 to a serious road traffic collision involving 2 cars on the A82 just north of Alltsigh. Crews used cutting gear to release casualties and also assisted Scottish Ambulance Service with casualty care. S38P6 S40P6

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨 Crew were paged at 9am on Sunday morning (16.04.23) to reports of an automatic fire alarm tag had activated underground at Livishie Power Station.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨 Crews were paged at 16:30 on Easter Sunday to attend a wildfire near the village of Glenelg. Ft Augustus crew worked alongside crews from Glenelg & Kyle of Lochalsh to bring the fire under control.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency Call🚨Crew paged at 12:10 on the 8.04.23 to assist air ambulance with an incident near Loch Loyne.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨 Crews were paged at 17:04 on the 04.04.23 to a 4X4 vehicle on fire within remote woodland near Achlain farm. Thanks to the local farmer for transporting firefighting media to the scene using his quad.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨 Crews were paged on the 17.03.23 along with crews from Foyers, Drumnadrochit, Inverness wholetime & the heavy rescue appliance to an RTC in Fort Augustus on the A82. The incident involved an agricultural tractor & car.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨 Crew were paged this morning at 05:04am (28.02.23) to an automatic fire alarm that had activated within Dundreggan power station.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨 Crew were paged this evening (Thurs 16th Feb) during our weekly drill night to attend a two vehicle road traffic accident on the A82 at Invergarry, by the junction for Mandally. Crew assisted police Scotland and the Scottish ambulance service.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨 Crew were paged at 08:58 (05.02.23) to an automatic fire alarm that had activated within the Caledonia Canal Centre in Fort Augustus.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨 Crews were paged at 04:54 (04.02.23) along with crews from Drumnadrochit & Foyers to a large barn fire that was well alight, containing gas cylinders at Faichem, Invergarry.

[Scottish Fire and Rescue Service @fire_scot]

With profound sadness we can confirm that Firefighter Barry Martin has passed away following the serious injuries sustained during a large fire at the former Jenners building in Edinburgh.

Interim Chief Officer Ross Haggart has issued this statement: https://t.co/lzsWyjwvk9

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency Call🚨 Crew were paged this evening (190123) to an RTC on the A87 west of Invergarry. While on route the crew came across another RTC - all occupants were out of the vehicle and un-injured. Both accidents were a clear cause of very icy conditions this evening.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨Crew were paged Sunday morning (15.01.23) to an automatic fire alarm within a domestic property in Fort Augustus.

[Fort Augustus Fire Station @FAfirestation]

🚨Emergency call🚨Crew were paged on Wednesday evening at 10.35pm alongside a crew from Foyers to an automatic fire alarm that had activated within the Abbey in Fort Augustus. #S38P6 #S39Z6