A motion has been submitted in the House of Commons that argues for a formal obligation for firefighters to attend flooding.
Despite an expectation that fire and rescue services attend flooding, there is currently no formal requirement that they must do so in England and Wales.
In order to best prepare for future occurrences, there must be a statutory duty for fire and rescue services to attend flooding incidents.
An Early Day Motion — which are used for reasons such as publicising the views of individual MPs, drawing attention to specific events or campaigns and demonstrating the extent of parliamentary support for a particular cause or point of view — has been submitted by Alan Meale and signed by nine others.
The FBU has also launched a campaign to ask MPs to use their influence to convince the government to create a statutory duty.
