News Archive

Dredger "Abigail H" Sinks in Heysham Harbour

On Sunday morning, 2nd November, the County Council duty emergency planner was notified that a dredger, the Abigail H, had suddenly sunk whilst at the quayside in Heysham Harbour.

LRF Emergency Information Card

A new credit-card sized information card has been produced to remind you about important details, that may help you during an emergency. Attached is an article from the Lancashire County Council Vision Magazine

*Vision is the Lancashire County Council newspaper that is delivered to homes in Lancashire every month.

Cold Weather Alert

The Department of Health has worked with the Met Office to develop a Cold Weather Health Warning scheme for the North West of England for this winter.

New Community Emergency Plan for Sunderland Point

Mark Bartlett, Civil Contingencies Officer with Lancaster City Council, has been working with community representatives at Sunderland Point to produce a Community Emergency Plan.

MCA Video Site

Here you will find the latest MCA News Podcasts, online video and also the MCA video archive, where you can purchase footage for production.

The Pitt Review

Sir Michael Pitt has now launched his final report. This final report is positive where it can be, but demanding where change is needed.

The interim conclusions of the Review were published in a report in December 2007, and views were sought during a consultation exercise lasting three months. We held conferences in every region, with well over 1,000 professionals from relevant fields attending to share their views. Public meetings and visits took place in affected areas and national seminars were addressed. The Review had indepth discussions with key organisations at a national level throughout the consultation exercise as well as receiving hundreds of written submissions.

Expl aining Pandemic Flu

A guide from the Chief Medical Officer

Thanks For A Job Well Done

Letter from Joan Humble MP

National Contingency Plan for Oil Pollution

A link has been provided to the MCA website in the Plans section

Confederation of Helicopter Ambulance Services (CHAS)

Link to the CHAS website providing detailed information regarding helicopter landing sites by county.

MCA Podcasts

Link to the MCA website where you can obtain Video News Releases (Podcasts)

Fred Charnley Retirement from RAYNET

RAYNET stalwart Fred Charnley recently retired from active participation after over 20 years involvement with the Lancashire RAYNET group.

Exercise Denny - Beachmaster Training 18th September 2007

Exercise Denny was the second day of a two day Beachmaster training course.

Exercise Winter Willow - Lessons Identified

This report outlines the results of the evaluation of the Exercise, a structured process that has sought to involve all the organisations and participants and has therefore been, of necessity, lengthy.

Buncefield - Explosion Mechanism Advisory Group report (2mb)

The Buncefield Major Incident Investigation Board (MIIB) has been overseeing a comprehensive investigation of the incident and has published a number of reports on its findings, this is the Explosion Mechanism Advisory Group report.

7 July Review Committee follow-up report

This report follows up on the work of the committee’s original investigation and the 54 recommendations it made in June 2006.

Victims of major incidents should get more help from the government (BBC News)

National Fire Service Portal - 08.05.07

The government has launched the national fire service portal for England

Civil Protection News - Spring 2007

Latest issue of the Civil Protection News

LCC Emergency Planning Service Relocation- 27.03.07

Details on the recent move of the Emergency Planning Team

Exercise Winter Willow - 27.03.07

Article from the UK Resilience Website

Frank Whiteford's Retirement - 01.02.07