Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

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A firefighter directs a jet of water high into the steel roof structure of the Tata steelworks mill, with sunlight streaming through gaps in the damaged roof above stacked steel rolls.

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

STEELWORKS FIRE: Tata aims to restart Hot Strip Mill mid-next week as fire crews finally leave Port Talbot after two days

By

Kit Peters

7 Min Read

Flames and thick smoke rising from a large fire at a waste recycling site at night, with a fire hose running across the foreground.

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

SKEWEN: Crews tackle huge recycling centre fire at Neath Abbey Wharf involving 150 tonnes of waste

Crews spent Thursday tackling a significant fire involving around 150 tonnes of…

By

Kit Peters

4 Min Read

Scorched and buckled metal cladding on a large steelworks building, seen in daylight under a cloudy sky.

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

STEELWORKS FIRE: Tata says blaze restricted to ‘confined area’ of Cold Mill but is unable to assess damage while crews remain on site

By

Kit Peters

7 Min Read

The gutted, glowing interior of a steelworks building at night with a hose directed across a walkway

PORT TALBOT: Steelworks fire burns into a second day as part of the building collapses — with union warning over jobs

A vital production line has been left with "substantial damage" and part…

By

Kit Peters

7 Min Read

A fire engine and firefighter outside a steelworks building at night with dark smoke overhead.

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

Over 100 firefighters from across Wales and the West of England tackle massive fire at Port Talbot steelworks

Crews from 16 fire stations across south and west Wales — some…

By

Kit Peters

8 Min Read

The bow of the JSP Samsø, a blue-hulled multi-purpose cargo ship registered in Madeira, moored at King's Dock in Swansea on a clear blue sky day

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

SWANSEA: Firefighters describe dramatic rescue of casualty from giant cargo ship at Swansea’s King’s Dock

It took firefighters from two Swansea stations, a turntable ladder, ambulance crews…

By

Kit Peters

6 Min Read

Bobi Jones, an 18-year-old on-call firefighter, stands in front of a red fire engine wearing a yellow firefighter helmet and a beige fire-resistant tunic over his white school shirt and red school tie, with his Ysgol Bro Teifi school uniform visible beneath the tunic

He’s 18, he’s doing his A-Levels, and his school lets him leave class to fight fires

Bobi Jones, 18, balances A-Levels at Ysgol Bro Teifi with emergency callouts…

By

Kit Peters

4 Min Read

Night shot, two firefighters with hose. Caption: Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service crews work through the night at the Water Street industrial fire in Port Talbot. Image: MWWFRS

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Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

PORT TALBOT: In pictures — the aftermath of the Water Street fire as crews continue to damp down

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service has released new images…

By

Kit Peters

5 Min Read

Two firefighters in yellow protective gear and breathing apparatus directing a hose into smouldering debris at the Port Talbot Dock Road fire site

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

PORT TALBOT: Fire enters controlled phase as road closures lifted and air quality monitoring deployed

The major fire at Water Street in Port Talbot is entering a…

By

Kit Peters

4 Min Read

Aerial view of a large wildfire burning across Fairwood Common on Gower, with a line of orange flames advancing across dry grassland and a thick plume of grey smoke rising into the sky, with a road and fields visible in the distance

GOWER: Fire crews tackle two wildfires in 24 hours -Fairwood Common and Cefn Bryn – as bank holiday fire risk soars

Fire crews have tackled two major wildfires on the Gower Peninsula within…

By

Kit Peters

5 Min Read

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