Pontardawe Fire Station

Today’s crew carrying out numerous different drills including pumping and ladder drills 🚒

Sadly we held a minute silence today along with all our colleagues at mid and west wales fire service in memory of FF Wyn Davies who worked at Milford fire station. RIP 🚒

Early Morning BA training for duty crew. Standard tests of line rescue equipment to follow🚒🌈

Todays crew carrying out multiple road traffic collision procedures including a full roof removal and a dashboard lift. #fireservice #rtc #trainhardrescueeasy

Today’s watch have been maintaining their level 3 competencies. Inchworm and 3 line vertical stretcher system set up.

Today at 12:00 we gave a minutes silence for firefighters mermorial day, commemorating firefighters who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

Thank you to the lovely lady who dropped off some amazing Welsh cakes today, sorry I didn’t catch your name to tag you.

A minute silence today for all the key workers who have sadly lost their lives to Covid-19 while protecting and caring for others. @mawwfire

Monday = Standard testing day, incorporating equipment into training scenario’s. 🌈🚒

Today we gave a minutes silence for Firefighter Simon Kaye from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service who tragically died on the 13th of April 2020. RIP Brother!

Thank you very much to Swansea valley cardiac support for dropping these off to us earlier, much appreciated 🚒👍🏼

Pontardawe fire station showing our support for the great work being carried out by the brave key workers! #Clapforcares #nhs

Helpwch i ledaenu'r gair cyn 8pm heno #RhoiClapInGofalwyr 👏🙏 ------------ Help spread the word before 8pm tonight #ClapForOurCarers 👏🙏 RT #StayHome #Covid19 #StaySafe

Making use of the nice weather today. Creating anchors for line rescue scenarios on station!! Stay safe everyone and please follow the guidelines regarding COVID -19.

Early morning BA training this morning followed by line rescue scenario in the afternoon. In between we had Station Manager people development visits and IT course for one of our crew. 🚒🚒🚒🚒

Good day maintaining our level 3 competencies, carrying out a variety of different scenarios at our training centre in earlswood. @mawwfire @WalesUSARTeam @mawwTechnical

Be prepared this weekend for the arrival of storm Dennis. If travelling make sure you check weather updates and flood alerts. @MAWWRoadSafety @mawwfire @metoffice @RoadSafetyWales @WelshNews

After a busy night, today we hosted a group of young people from a local school at our station. They were taking part in an initiative run by our service youth team to educate young people in fire safety. Hope you all enjoyed your visit 🚒🔥🚒 @mawwfire

Here's a reminder of the #wind warnings in force for today due to #StormCiara #WeatherAware