Fatalities

The FBU has warned that more firefighters could be seriously injured or killed at work if lessons are not learned from past fatalities. A report by Stirling University, published earlier this year, found that in the last decade the number of firefighter deaths at fires in the UK had doubled from the...

The FBU has today welcomed the end of an almost six year wait for justice for hero firefighter Ewan Williamson. Hero Ewan lost his life in the line of duty battling a fire at the Balmoral bar in Dalry Road, Edinburgh on the 12 July 2009. Although the FBU welcomes the sentence from Judge Uist the...

The FBU has welcomed the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service’s guilty plea into the death of our brother and friend firefighter Ewan Williamson who lost his life in the line of duty fighting a fire at the Balmoral Bar in Dalry Road, Edinburgh on the 12 July 2009. The FBU will need to see the full...

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service stands accused this week of health and safety breaches that contributed to the death of firefighter Ewan Williamson in 2009, as a trial gets underway. Ewan was involved in operations at the Balmoral Bar, Edinburgh, as part of the then Lothian and Borders Fire and...

Since the debate in Parliament on 15 December 2014 we have been very busy trying to either confirm that the Parliamentary guarantee was genuine and would be delivered at local level – or whether it was just an empty promise designed to mislead MPs and to force through the 2015 Firefighters’ Pension...

UK firefighters are calling for urgent meetings with all stakeholders following the release of a report into UK firefighter fatalities commissioned by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and produced by the University of Stirling. “We want this report to focus minds on what can be done to improve public...

Firefighters have welcomed the news that East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service has dropped its appeal against liability for the deaths of Geoff Wicker and Brian Wembridge at a firework factory on Marlie Farm in 2006. The High Court ruled back in 2013 that East Sussex FRS was guilty of negligence...