A central issue for people living and working across the UK are the risks from fire and other emergencies, matters that the fire and rescue service deals with twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The risks from fires at home, at work, as well as road traffic incidents, floods, from terrorism and a host of other things firefighters tackle every day have not reduced – in many cases they have increased. Firefighters can tell politicians about the way we’ve dealt with significant risks in recent years, including the 7/7 attacks, the Olympics, huge fires and explosions, car crashes and much more.
Firefighters dealt with almost double the flood incidents in 2012 than in 2011, but the current legislative arrangements for England and Wales do not even require the service to respond to floods.
