Busy Morning for Fire Crews

Early this morning fire crews from Castletown and Douglas were called to a large gorse fire in Cregneash.

On arrival crews were met with a rapidly spreading gorse fire of approximately 50 square meters and worked hard to prevent the fire spreading further.

Due to the remote location a water bowser was used to supplement water supplies to the area. Crews were in attendance for three hours and investigations in the cause of the fire are continuing.

Then, at 6.30am, a rescue pump from Peel station and a major appliance from Kirk Michael station responded to reports of a person trapped following a one vehicle road traffic collision in the area of the 11th milestone on the TT course.

The fire service said: ‘The single occupant of the vehicle had managed to free themselves prior to our arrival and received precautionary checks from our colleagues in The Isle of Man Ambulance Service.’