Control

Yesterday FBU conference discussed a range of issues that are facing members in control rooms. After the session Tam McFarlane spoke to Amelia Diallo from the control staff national committee (CSNC) and Brent Thorley from Dorset and Wiltshire on two vital issues facing control staff. Amelia outlines...

A short film centred around an intense phone call between a control room firefighter and a distressed mother who is trapped in a burning house with her sons is hoping to pick up a BAFTA award on Sunday. The film, which highlights the difficulties and challenges the emergency services face when...

Firefighters in South Yorkshire will be balloted for industrial action in protest over plans which include cutting a quarter of all emergency control operators within the fire and rescue service and changes to firefighters’ leave arrangements. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) say that the senior...

Firefighters have lodged a formal trade dispute with South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority over plans to cut a quarter of control operators in the region. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has given the fire authority until 6 January 2016 to withdraw the proposed job cuts, as a matter of public...

Firefighters in Essex took strike action Thursday 6 August in protest at the largest, most devastating cuts to emergency fire response in the history of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service (ECFRS). FBU Brigade Chair for Essex Riccardo la Torre said “We will see these cuts hit all areas of our 999...

Calls for a public inquiry into the £1 million Essex Emergency Fire Control fiasco continue following the new Fire Minister’s visit to the Essex Fire and Rescue HQ at Kelvedon Park on Friday. The mobilising system failure also affects Bedfordshire. The FBU has asked the new Fire Minister and Essex...

Firefighters and emergency 999 control staff in Essex have been taking industrial action over plans to cut 179 firefighting jobs. Equivalent to a quarter of all frontline staff the cuts are the largest ever proposed in any one year in the UK fire and rescue service. Essex Country Fire and Rescue...

South West Fire Brigades Union (FBU) Officials have slammed the continued waste of £1.9 million of tax payers’ money on the empty regional fire control building in Taunton. The failed project, established by the Labour Government in 2004, has left an empty building in Taunton while national fire and...