For the next 5 days after that had numerous requests from various government bodies asking about said emergency. How the hell they got my number I don't know.
My reply of it wasn't an emergency and please contact the satco of xyz airfield for the reason why you pissed 20k of overtime up the spout plus left half of Highland region without fire cover due every engine heading south to deal with a 747 that couldn't fit on the runway at Min dry weight anyway for a crappy tp.
Sadly, in the UK these days it is often is not up to the controller on duty to decide what level of ground response is declared. There are rules in the national book that require a certain level of emergency to be declared, and local rules can add to to this. Common sense and professional judgement seem to be valued less - or maybe are present less - than the old days when I were a lad. Back in my operational days I had one of those invitations to tea and biscuits with the Airport Director where I was quizzed why I only declared a 'local standby on station' for the airport fire crew when a twin TP arrived having made a precautionary shutdown on one engine. It was a beautiful summer afternoon, maybe 5kts of wind straight down the runway with plenty of time to talk with the crew to make sure there were no other concerns to be taken into account. It was all very relaxed....up to the meeting with the Director, where I was berated for acting unprofessionally despite my pointing out that had the circumstances been different I may have taken different decisions - I don't recall any tea or biscuits either. The following day the local instructions (MATS 2) was amended to say that if an aircraft suffered a 50% or more power loss a full emergency must be declared (which brought half the County fire and ambulance services to the airport and meant that non-critical cases got turned away from A&E at the local hospitals). Maybe if I were in management and wanted to avoid any possible liability claims I would do the same, but it does rather suggest a lack of confidence in the competence of one's carefully selected staff.