Covid-19 Testing: Fire Service Personnel
COVID-19: Firefighters to deliver food and medicines, drive ambulances, and move bodies
Firefighters will be able to deliver food and medicines, drive ambulances, and move dead bodies during the coronavirus outbreak in an unprecedented agreement between the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), fire chiefs, and Fire and Rescue Employers. For the first time, all three stakeholder groups have...
Firefighters to protect vulnerable by avoiding hospitals and care homes, as “critical risk-based service” agreed
Fire and rescue services will cease most home fire-safety checks and avoid hospitals, care homes and residences with vulnerable people, to limit coronavirus cross-infection between firefighters and the public, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and fire and rescue bosses have agreed. Firefighters and...
COVID-19: Fire Brigades Union postpones Annual Conference and educational courses
In light of the escalating public health crisis caused by Covid-19 (coronavirus), the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has confirmed the postponing of its Annual Conference and educational courses. The decision comes after the Executive Council met to discuss the latest public health advice from the...
COVID-19: Fire and rescue services lose hundreds of firefighters to self-isolation, as union calls for priority testing
Fire and rescue service personnel must receive priority testing and vaccination for coronavirus, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said after some brigades reported losing hundreds of staff to self-isolation. In a letter to ministers in Westminster and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales...
