Cuts

Surrey’s Chief Fire Officer Russell Pearson has been removed from post just months after he was awarded the Queen’s Fire Service Medal, it has been revealed today (20 July). The Fire Brigades Union says it fears Surrey County Council (SCC) ousted him as punishment for his repeated warnings that...

Firefighters at the Grenfell Tower fire did not have the resources required to tackle such an enormous blaze, the public inquiry into the disaster has heard. Watch manager Brian O’Keefe was on the third fire appliance dispatched to the scene. He told the inquiry how there were no BA crews left to...

 Firefighters are being stretched to breaking point after a series of major fires have raged across the Home Counties, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said. London Fire Brigade has sent crews to assist firefighting efforts in Surrey and Buckinghamshire leaving the capital at risk if a major...

What: Launch of anti-cuts campaign in Merseyside Where: The Boardroom, Jack Jones House, 2 Churchill Way, Liverpool L3 8EF When: 6:30pm, Friday 29 June 2018 A campaign is being launched by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) to stop alarming budget cuts to Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service which has seen...

The FBU has reacted with anger that firefighter jobs are under threat in North Wales as the fire service are set to cut budgets by £2m. Fire stations could also be shut or downgraded as well as appliances being up for the chop. The union has vowed to fight the plans ‘tooth and nail’. Cerith Griffith...

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is urging the Isle of Wight’s council cabinet to reject a controversial review of the fire service that would put public safety at risk. The fire service review contains plans to cut the number of firefighters in a crew from five to four as well as axing 15% of the...

The public is being denied the right to have a say on proposed changes to the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service that the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) say are a threat to public safety. Managers at the service have proposed measures that would include a reduction in the number of firefighters who...

Following a robust campaign sustained over two years, the FBU in Cheshire have finally got the decision overturned to downgrade fire appliances at Crewe and Ellesmere Port from full time to on call. Following the Cheshire Fire Authority’s approval to downgrade both stations’ appliances, the vote for...

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has reacted to the release today of new figures on fires and fire deaths by describing both the rise in fires for the second year running and the rise in fatalities as ‘horrifying’. Fire incidents have increased in England by 9% for the year ending September 2017...