WCoFF NEWS Desk
Plans for a new training facility and fire station in Huntingdon are one step closer, following approval from Huntingdonshire District Council’s planning committee. This significant project involves building a modern, fit-for purpose training centre and new community fire station at St John’s Park, north of Huntingdon.The training facilities will provide effective, reliable and realis ...
Family and friends of firefighter Danny Granger who sadly died last week, have set up a Go Fund Me page to raise money to buy iPads and holders for the Addenbrookes intensive care unit. The fundraising page, which has already reached over £1,200, has been set up in Danny’s memory to help families of those in the critical wards see and speak to their loved ones while visiting is restri ...
Staff across Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service have been paying tribute to on-call firefighter Danny Granger who sadly died in hospital yesterday evening after a four week battle with Covid-19. Danny, aged 52, had served at Cottenham Fire Station for nearly 22 years and is described as being the ‘life and soul of the station’. His watch commander Julian Bridgeman said: “Da ...
The Great Plague 1665 Back in March 2020 I was infected with Covid-19. I wrote a trilogy of articles following my journey through the remainder of that year and into early 2021. It was during the second 'lockdown' that I purchased a book on the Bubonic Plague of 1664-1665. Almost immediately I began to notice similarities between the people of those desperate years and the people o ...
The Great Plague 1665
Vaccination sites around the county are being supported by Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service staff pitching in to help with getting residents immunised against COVID-19. Staff from across all areas of the Service, from emergency call handlers and support staff to fire officers and both on-call and wholetime firefighters, have all been giving help at vaccination sites. Group Commander Wayne ...
Last October we were inspected by the Her Majesties Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Service (HMICFRS) on our response during the COVID-19 pandemic from last March. Here is the Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s HMICFRS full report. HMICFRS has outlined its key findings in a report which covers how the Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Staff stepped up to support ...
