Firefighters rescued a girl trapped in a swing in East Hanningfield this afternoon.
Crews rescued the girl, after a call at 12.15pm, from the garden apparatus using small tools and released her by 12.39pm.
The incident was one of 30 the county's service was called to over a weekend's worth of industrial strike action.
The Fire Brigades Union organised a strike between 10am and 3pm today (Sunday, May 4), between 2pm and 2am yesterday and also between 12pm and 5pm on Friday, May 2.
Crews also had to rescue four people trapped in a lift in Southend, a fire on solar panels at the Shire Hill Industrial Estate in Saffron Walden but also four false alarms today, bringing Sunday's total incidents to 10.
