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So you don't know what happened, don't know what was reported but have decided that it was an over reaction? Well done, you! 🙄

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Originally Posted by biscuit74 (Post 11636246)

I count 12 vehicles there.

Stop under-reacting. There are at least 18 - and possibly 20 - vehicles involved (see video). Perhaps one more guarding the airside gate.

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Originally Posted by biscuit74 (Post 11636246)

I count 12 vehicles there. A couple of years back a friend overran the end of a grass runway and inverted his aircraft, right in front of us. (We were running up our aircraft at the time) ,He was unhurt.and no smoke or fire, but was stuck. My wife called for a fire engine to help us get him out. (He asked for as little fuss as possible) Over the next 45 minutes 13 emergency vehicles turned up, including a rescue helicopter. Naturally, photographers pitched up too !

Only one vehicle got seriously stuck, but trying to stop the police from setting up an 'exclusion zone' around the area was a challenge. Hard to avoid them making a big event out of it - they naturally presume the worst. So maybe this order of response is to be expected.

Our friend was lucky, being uninjured. I hope the folks in this accident recover OK.

I'll see you're 13 and raise you 37 to 50 for the number of emergency vehicles that attended a C152 that landed in trees near my house! ;-)

So in future if you call for an ambulance or police and they don't come to your house in reasonable time, you know what to do! :E

I once had, in this order, ambulance, police, and fire engine (one of each) turn up as I was starting to derig a glider after a completely uneventful field landing. They took quite a lot of persuading to go away. I had to explain to each crew, in detail, that my glider did not have an engine and that the wings and tailplane were supposed to be removable. The farmer was not best pleased when the fire engine blocked the lane while he was trying to put the cows back in the neighbouring field after milking.