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A majority of the other incidents reported have only required a single fire appliance, but control rooms have been inundated with calls, often repeats to the same incident.

Twelve people worked the fire appliance, pumping the handle 24 times a minute.

He added that every fire appliance in Greater Manchester would be given specialist equipment over the next 12 months "to support a timely and effective multi-agency response to a marauding terrorist attack or a mass casualty rescue event".

A fire appliance from Foyers and another from Inverness were first sent to the scene.

"Two fire appliances from Northland fire station and one fire appliance from Crescent Link fire station are attending the scene."