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Culpable

A tower block fire in the nineties should have alerted politicians to the dangers of deregulation – instead they allowed homes to become ticking time bombs. Paul Hampton uncovers a web of complicity and deceit in the new FBU book on the causes of the Grenfell Tower fire  On 5 April 1991, fire...

FBU Grenfell book Culpable published

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Dear Brother/Sister, The FBU has published a book, Culpable: Deregulation, Austerity and the Causes of the Grenfell Tower Fire, as part of the union’s ongoing work to learn the lessons of the Grenfell...

Firefighter June July 2025

Cover of June July issue of Firefighter magazine featuring a dedication to Jennie Logan and Martyn Sadler
Firefighter commemorates Jennie Logan and Martyn Sadler, two firefighters who tragically lost their lives at a fire in Bicester on May 15 this year. Features in this issue include an update from FBU's annual conference in Blackpool, and a look at firefighting on the frontline in the town, which has...

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Grenfell: building safety: lessons still not learned

14 June 2025 marked eight years since the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people. Firefighters took part in the annual silent walk alongside the bereaved, survivors and the community in memory of the people who lost their lives and to demand that the tragedy is never repeated. After seven years...
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Fire leaves Home Office as government accepts Grenfell recommendations

Government responsibility for the fire and rescue service moved from the Home Office to the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government on 1 April 2025. The FBU welcomed this as an important first step to repairing the damage done to the fire and rescue service by recent governments. In a...
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Fire Brigades Union responds to government’s Grenfell Inquiry action plan

By Alice Dann
Ministers have today published the government's official response to the final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, which gave 58 recommendations in September 2024. The government has accepted the findings of the inquiry, and has set out a plan to take action on the recommendations. This includes...
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Exposed

On 3 January, a team of world leading fire scientists published research on firefighter health that made headline news. In black and white, printed on the front page of the Guardian, was a figure that was impossible to ignore: 1 in 4 firefighters who attended the Grenfell Tower fire are now...
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FBU welcomes transfer of fire from Home Office to MHCLG

By Michael Chessum
Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, today made a written statement confirming that responsibility for fire will move from the Home Office to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. It reads: “On 4 September 2024 I announced that the Government would respond in full to the Grenfell...
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