Cuts

Vital frontline fire and rescue services are to be axed across Gloucestershire despite warnings it will take firefighters much longer to get to emergencies. Cabinet members of Gloucestershire county council met today (3 February) and voted unanimously to close Painswick fire station and to cut all...

Recommendations by senior managers at Gloucestershire’s fire service to shut down Painswick fire station and cut all the full time firefighters at Cirencester fire station have been slammed as ‘disgraceful’ by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU). The decision by managers at Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue...

Merseyside firefighters have warned that the government is playing Russian roulette with people’s lives by imposing huge budget cuts to the fire and rescue service. The warning comes ahead of a parliamentary debate, due to take place Tuesday 26 January 2016 in Westminster Hall between 4:30pm – 5...

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...

People trapped in property fires, floods and road traffic collisions will have to wait far longer for firefighters to rescue them if cuts are given the go ahead, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said. The union has called for politicians at Gloucestershire County Council to reject plans that would...

The firefighters’ union, who have praised the efforts of firefighters as devastating floods have hit the north of England, Wales and other areas, have called for the government to recognise the need for central co-ordination and proper investment in flood response resources. The Fire Brigades Union...

New figures published today on the shortage of fire engines in the West Midlands show that staff shortages are to blame for the huge number of engines that are regularly unavailable for emergency response. Figures compiled by the West Midlands branch of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) found that...