Firefighter magazine

This issue covers the FBU's ‘age discrimination’ win on pensions, with questions answered on the 1992 pension scheme by national officer Sean Starbuck. It also includes features about a pioneering research project on contaminants, funded in part by the Firefighters 100 Lottery; the recent California...

This issue of Firefighter, in addition to features on the union’s centenary celebration on 13 October and the Firefighters 100 Lottery in 2018, an update of the FBU's continued fight for pension’s justice and retained duty system recruitment campaign, included, in keeping with the historic features...

As part of the union’s centenary year, the Firefighter has included features on major fires where the FBU has played a crucial role in securing new fire safety regulations. In this issue, Helen Hague writes about the Kings Cross fire. Also in this issue, David Wibberley writes about the health...

This month's Firefighter magazine reports from the annual FBU conference where the Grenfell Tower fire took centre stage during a debate hailed as one of the most poweruful in union history. Read up on the debate and the other key moments from conference. Elsewhere in the magazine Dave Green...

Contaminants, the dangers they pose and what firefighters can do to protect themselves is the key theme of the latest issue of Firefighter magazine. FBU national officer Sean Starbuck reports on an international conference convened to tackle the issue of firefighters being exposed to cancer-causing...

In the first Firefighter magazine of our centenary year, we lead on the 60th anniversary of the Smithfield market fire which led to the deaths of two firefighters. The blaze also led to major changes to Breathing Apparatus and firefighting procedures. Elsewhere, we hear about the union's plan to...

This issue looks at the Grenfell Inquiry, 40 years since the first national firefighters strike, a report from the 2017 Labour Party conference and marks the first birthday of the Firefighters 100 Lottery.

The Grenfell Tower fire was a disaster that should never have been allowed to happen and one which saw FBU members go beyond the call of duty to save as many lives as possible. The August issue of Firefighter focuses heavily on the aftermath of Grenfell in what was the worst loss of life in a fire...

With a snap general election underway, the latest edition of Firefighter magazine, now online, calls on members to vote for a Labour government which will start investing in public services. Since the Conservatives came to power in 2010 – on the promise of no frontline cuts - funding for fire...

The April issue of Firefighter magazine reveals that if firefighters’ pay had kept pace with inflation since 2010, it is estimated that they would be earning £2,000 a year more. Paul Hampton lifts the lid on the pay freeze and argues that firefighters face many more years of this if the Westminster...