Action taken to prevent parked cars blocking emergency services
Action is to be taken to prevent bad parking blocking fire appliances getting to emergency calls in Llanelli. Firemen were forced to abandon their appliance and run down a blocked Bryn Road in their breathing apparatus to attend a 999 call. There have been two emergency calls to Bryn Road Llanelli last year (2014) with the fire engine unable to get to the threatened houses because of the badly parked cars. The Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service are calling for enforceable double yellow line parking restrictions to prevent delays in any future incidents with bad double banked parking causing delays and potential fatalities. The fire services station response manager, Justin Lewis, has advised the Carmarthenshire Council engineering and transport teams of the two incidents on Bryn Road in 2014 where a fire appliance was blocked from continuing along the street because of double parking on the western end of the road. During one of the incidents, fire officers had no choice othe...