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'No firefighter should be put in this position': Cambridgeshire firefighters protest crews of three

04 Oct, 2023 By Alice Dann

Firefighters in Cambridgeshire held a rally outside a meeting of the Cambridgeshire Fire Authority on October 4th, protesting a ‘dangerous’ reduction to fire crews. Since January 1st 2023, Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) has cut the number of on-call firefighters attending incidents in...

Firefighters hold mass rally to save North Wales fire service from cuts

30 Sep, 2023 By Alice Dann

Over 100 firefighters and supporters from across North Wales took to the streets of Wrexham to defend the region’s fire service from cuts. The protest has taken place on the day that North Wales Fire and Rescue Service is set to close a public consultation on cuts to firefighters, fire stations and...

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Fire service cuts could cost lives, warn firefighters in wake of Ayr hotel fire

27 Sep, 2023 By Alice Dann

Firefighters have warned that cuts could cost lives in the aftermath of a fire at the Station Hotel in Ayr, saying that they have been “robbed of adequate resources” to respond to incidents. Reports were received of a fire in the iconic abandoned hotel in the early evening of Monday 25 September...

Cuts leave scars campaign: Petition against cuts to Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

29 Aug, 2023

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Dear Brother/Sister CUTS LEAVE SCARS CAMPAIGN: PETITION AGAINST CUTS TO SCOTTISH FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is facing some of the worst cuts to its frontline response...

Scottish firefighters hold rally against cuts

24 Aug, 2023 By Alice Dann

On Thursday 24th August, the Fire Brigades Union brought together firefighters from across Scotland for a mass rally in Glasgow to demonstrate against large-scale cuts to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. The Scottish government is currently threatening budget cuts which would see £11 million...

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How a hotel fire shows reality of cuts

Joe Weir, FBU executive council member for South East England, says effects are clear. Very rarely does a single incident neatly demonstrate the impact of cuts to public services. But on Saturday 15 July, a fire broke out at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, East Sussex. This was not the first...

The NHS at 75 – and at breaking point

Headlines about the NHS at breaking point have been written for years, but now the truth is far graver, says Professor Allyson Pollock, clinical professor of public health at Newcastle University What happens in the National Health Service matters to everyone, and not just because almost everyone in...

Inverclyde ffs rally over cuts July 2023

Time to unite and end the constant cuts

FBU members in Scotland are organising to save their service from some of the worst cuts seen in modern times and are calling for UK-wide support for their campaign, says Colin Brown, EC member for Scotland Following the announcement of a five-year “flat cash” budget last year, the Scottish Fire and...

London July 2022: 2,496 emergency calls to control, 39 appliances off the run due to ‘insufficient staff’

Matt Wrack says the official report on a major wildfire incident is a damning indictment of the effect of cuts and failures of leadership 19 July 2022 will go down as one of the most memorable dates in the history of the London Fire Brigade (LFB). It was certainly one of the busiest days in LFB’s...

National womens committee rally at LGA over maternity pay

Service needs serious investment

While some parts of the UK experienced the wettest July on record, much of continental Europe experienced weeks of dangerously high temperatures, as well as tornadoes, flash floods and hailstones as big as golf balls. Our climate is becoming more chaotic and destructive. Firefighters are on the...

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