Cuts

Firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in Lincolnshire were celebrating this week as their campaign to save frontline services paid off. After a lengthy consultation, Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed it intends to keep Lincoln South fire station operating as a full time...

Hundreds of firefighter jobs are at risk after Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service revealed a £14.6m ‘efficiency plan’, which the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) say will risk the safety of the public and firefighters. The plan to cut 253 firefighters’ posts over the next four years will mean the...

More than 130 firefighters could be axed in Essex after the local fire authority voted through some of the biggest cuts to fire and rescue in the county’s history. The news confirms fears that people will have to wait longer to be rescued in an emergency. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said the...

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is failing to meet response time targets to more than half of all emergencies in the areas where ten fire stations were closed in 2014, new research shows. The news comes as it was revealed there have been two more fatal fires at incidents in the capital where fires...

The number of firefighters at the busiest station in North Wales could be slashed by up to 24 posts, in a move the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has called ‘brutal’ for public safety. North Wales fire authority looks set to cut £1m from its 2019/2020 budget following a meeting last week. The move, which...

The leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn addressed the 89 th conference of the Fire Brigades Union on Friday 13 May 2016. Jeremy is a long standing supporter of the FBU and was a founding member of the union’s parliamentary group. Corbyn told conference delegates that he thought cuts to the...

The capital will see more fire deaths if the next Mayor of London does not tackle the London Fire Brigade waiting times crisis, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in London has said. The stark warning comes as the FBU release a new video that endorses Sadiq Khan’s campaign for city hall. The video...

It has emerged that a multi-million pound financial black hole in the accounts of Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service could result in more frontline cuts, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has warned. Ahead of the elections on 5 May, Staffordshire police and crime commissioner (PCC) Matthew Ellis has...

Reacting to figures published in the Guardian showing a 21% rise in fire deaths over the past year Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said: “We are now witnessing the tragic results of such wrong-headed cuts to the fire and rescue service. Over the past five years, the...