WCoFF NEWS Desk
With the festive season only around the corner, Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service is encouraging families to stay fire safe over Christmas. Simple things like remembering batteries for new toys rather than using the ones in a smoke alarm, to making sure electric sockets are not overloaded and keeping cooking surfaces clutter free, can all help to prevent a fire in the home. Group Commander ...
Local public services team up to highlight the true heroes of Christmas Move over #KevinTheCarrot and #ExcitableEdgar, public sector organisations across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have come together to highlight the true heroes of Christmas in a festive video. Responding, caring, gritting, monitoring, patrolling, supporting, comforting… the work of public sector organisations doesn ...
A Cambridgeshire firefighter has become the first female at March Fire Station to be the officer in charge of emergency incidents and qualified to drive a fire engine. Firefighter Vicky Vata was successful at the crew’s drill night on Thursday (November 28) where she was assessed by officers from Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service’s training centre. The qualification, known as &ld ...
It is with deep regret that I write to inform you all of the death of Honorary Freeman, Field Marshal Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, Baron Bramall, KG, GCB, OBE, MC, JP, DL, who passed away on the 12th November 2019, aged 95. The Lord Bramall was one of the long serving Honorary Freemen of the Company, having been made an Honorary member of the Guild of Firefighters in 1990, and due to pressure of wo ...
Our Master Frances Blois was a guest at the recent London Fire Brigade Retired Members Association dinner held at the Royal Air Force Club in Piccadilly. The photo shows our Master with the General Secretary of the association, Liveryman Barry Sargent. The Master is wearing the Mess Dress of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), of which she is a Trustee. After the meal the Chairman of the asso ...
Frances Blois Master’s Blog November2019 I hope that you have not felt that you have waited too long for my second blog, rather like the very patient Sherlock pictured at Dowgate recently, before he demonstrated his skills. He is remarkable and has his own book 'Sherlock: The Fire Brigade Dog.' The last 4 months have flown by. July was busy starting with two visits to t ...
