On March 20th, 2024, several Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service crews attended a large-scale training exercise was held at the Puma Energy Storage and Distribution Terminal in Milford Haven.
The training session, named Exercise IVOR, involved a simulated incident at the terminal which required a response of five fire and specialist appliances from Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock and Haverfordwest Fire Stations.
The exercise, directed by Watch Manager Chris Lawrence, involved a simulated faulty loading arm which caused a major aviation fuel leak around the loading area. Crews were also required to undertake the rescue of simulated unconscious terminal personnel who were at the scene.
Specialist crews from Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock focussed on the fuel leak in and around the terminal’s carriages by laying a foam blanket to suppress the ignition source and then carried out the rescues by utilising breathing apparatus sets. A separate successful rescue was carried out at a height of 90ft by utilising the Haverfordwest turntable ladder.
Following the training exercise’s debrief, Puma’s Head of Security and Safety, Simon Nicholas, was presented with a special thank you gift by WM Chris Lawrence on behalf of the Service’s Western Division for allowing various crews to carry out 50 large and small scale training scenarios over the past five years.
During the training exercise, WM Christopher Lawrence said:
“We are incredibly grateful to the team at the Puma Energy Terminal for their assistance in allowing us to hold training exercises at their site for several years. These sessions allow our crew members to develop and refine their emergency response skills when responding to large-scale incidents such as the one we’ve simulated here today.”
