I was concentrating pretty hard on something at work - I know this because my head was starting to hurt - when that small, vibrating, plastic thing attached to my hip threw a wobbly.
I think I nearly went through the ceiling! I'd been so deep in thought (hard to believe but true) that the sudden, shrill call of my alerter certainly had the desired effect! I was up and out of the door and heading for my car before my alerter had finished its fit. Bugger, where did I park the car? Brilliant! I'd had trouble parking anywhere near the office and instead was shoehorned into a tiny space not far from the football ground... Why don't cars have Oxygen masks that drop down when the driver slumps into his seat fighting fro breath?
Anyway, I pick up the drivers tally, and get sorted in the pump - radio on, MDT (mobile data terminal) on, handful of personal radio's. As we were made our way into town a message went back to Control that this incident was now 'persons reported'. This tends the focus the mind even more than it already was...
We pull into Commercial Road and head for the old, derelict British Transport police station on the opposite side to Aldi's.
Everyone is accounted for... It seems that someone has been using the building as a temporary home and had started a fire to keep warm. Could this be what happened in the old Aldi's just two days ago?
Back to Normanshurst and a standby as Green Watch get a shout to an RTC on the A12, south of Blythburgh. We finally left the station just before 1pm with my stomach rumbling and me on a mission to silence it...
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