WCoFF Fire News Desk
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Article Added: 01 Jun 2021
This Volunteers' Week, Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service is celebrating the efforts of staff that have supported the national vaccination rollout. Around 150 service volunteers, including senior officers, firefighters, call handlers and support staff have given more than 4,400 hours at sites around the county. This included helping to set up mass vaccination centres, assisting…
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Article Added: 10 May 2021
A dozen iPads have been handed over to Addenbrookes Critical Care Unit today, thanks to a fundraising effort by the family of Danny Granger. Danny, an on-call firefighter at Cottenham Fire Station, died in February after catching Covid-19. He had been treated at Addenbrookes Hospital for a number of weeks after he became ill and his family wanted to do something to help other families keep in tou…
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Article Added: 06 May 2021
One of Cambridgeshire’s first woman firefighters has attended her last emergency incident as she retires after 30 years of service. Nicola Barlow (50) leaves her current watch at Wisbech Fire Station after beginning her career in April 1991. Originally from Newton in Fenland, Nicola became the first woman to join Cambri…
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Article Added: 03 May 2021
A Cambridgeshire fire officer is taking on a fitness challenge to raise money for The Fire Fighters Charity. Group Commander Simon Thompson has taken on the challenge of completing 44,597 press-ups, marking one for each member of staff who works for a fire service in England. He began the ‘44k by the 4th May’ mission on 1 December and will be completing the remaining press ups on Tue…
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Article Added: 03 May 2021
A Cambridgeshire fire officer is taking on a fitness challenge to raise money for The Fire Fighters Charity. Group Commander Simon Thompson has taken on the challenge of completing 44,597 press-ups, marking one for each member of staff who works for a fire service in England. He began the ‘44k by the 4th May’ mission on 1 December and will be completing the remaining press ups on Tue…
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Article Added: 03 May 2021
Arson costs the country millions of pounds every year and puts lives at risk. It accounts for almost half of all fires attended by the fire and rescue services and can have devastating effects in terms of its cost and consequences. Insurers report that arson costs over £1bn in fire-related claims across the UK each year. Damage to property, business interruption and other incon…
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