WCoFF Fire News Desk
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service is looking for local residents and business owners to get involved in a new online feedback forum to share their views and opinions about?the work of their local fire and rescue service. They are asking people to register their details and agree to be sent one or two emails a month either with some simple questions to respond to, or on occasions, to re ...
Following research carried out on the availability of emergency cover, data indicated that Fire Service attendance times could be improved in Luton and Central Bedfordshire by moving one appliance from Luton Fire Station closer to the north of Luton. Due to Luton Ambulance Station being usefully located in this area, Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service and the East of England Ambulance Service ...
Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s (BFRS) Chief Fire Officer (CFO) is urging people to take simple steps to protect themselves from accidental fires and carbon monoxide poisoning as they look to keep warm and cut energy use this winter. It is crucial people ensure they have working smoke alarms – at least one on each level of the home. Where you have a heating appliance that does ...
The chief fire officer for Cambridgeshire is warning there will have to be reductions to the county’s fire and rescue service unless the way in which it is funded changes. Recently, as part of national negotiations with the Fire Brigades Union, a revised cost of living pay award of five per cent was offered for firefighters. Combining this with the offer already on the table for support sta ...
The Friends of the London Fire Brigade Museum (Chairman Liveryman David Rogers) recently put on an engaging display of old fire appliances and fire ephemera at Shoreditch Fire Station. Amongst the exhibits on display were photographs from our own collection of London fire scenes from the late Owen Rowland collection. Also, a welcome visitor was Past Master Cowland, seen in front of 240 FLM, a beau ...
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service is aiming to improve the time its fire engines get to emergency incidents in rural areas by allowing some fire engines to be sent with three firefighters. Currently, although the Service aims to have five firefighters on each fire engine, it allows fire engines to go with four firefighters on board. It will only send a crew of three to bin fires or small ani ...