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Firefighters say: Storms show need for end to cuts and urgent measures to protect emergency services

06 Dec, 2013 By infobo

As firefighters and other emergency service workers helped rescue those trapped by yesterday’s storms, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) insisted there was a need for an immediate end to cuts in the fire and rescue service. The firefighters union also called on the government to issue an order to...

Facing reality: FBU submission to the Spending Review 2013

01 Jun, 2013

A central issue for people living and working across the UK are the risks from fire and other emergencies, matters that the fire and rescue service deals with twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The risks from fires at home, at work, as well as road traffic incidents, floods, from terrorism...

Firefighter magazine April 2013

01 Apr, 2013

No to mass sackings, pensions campaign at a critical stage, mutual plan is ‘back door privatisation’, FBU’s learning school ‘inspiring’ and still no statutory flood response duty.

Firefighter magazine

Flooding incidents almost double – but fire service still has no statutory duty to deal with them

14 Mar, 2013 By infobo

Firefighters across the UK attended nearly twice as many flooding incidents in 2012 than in 2011, according to new figures obtained by the Fire Brigades Union under the Freedom of Information Act. Fire and rescue services from around the country were called to 22,518 flooding situations last year...

South West floods - FBU tells MPs “wake up” to consequences of cuts

27 Nov, 2012 By infobo

After the extraordinary professionalism of fire crews who worked around the clock for days on end to deal with massive floods in the South West, the FBU has written to politicians in the region and told them that the union now expects investment in the service and the threat of front-line cuts to be...

Firefighters warn – emergency response to flooding threatened by cutbacks

26 Nov, 2012 By infobo

Relentless cuts to frontline 999 services threaten to hamper firefighters’ ability to respond to floods and other emergencies, the Fire Brigades Union warned today, as parts of England grappled with the fallout from heavy downpours. Savage spending cuts imposed on fire and rescue services by central...

South West floods - FBU puts politicians on notice

23 Nov, 2012 By infobo

After yet another night of extraordinary professionalism from fire crews dealing with massive floods in the South West, the FBU has put politicians on notice that they expect the threat of front line cuts to be removed. Last night proved to be another very busy night for fire crews in the South West...

Firefighter magazine October 2012

01 Oct, 2012

Why fire fighters will be demonstrating on 20 October, West Yorkshire fire authority proposals to close more fire stations, officials prepare case to put to MPs and flood funding denied.

Firefighter magazine

FBU attacks government inaction on flood response

31 Jul, 2012 By infobo

The Fire Brigades Union has attacked today’s government decision to risk public safety in England and Wales by refusing to require fire and rescue services to respond to flood emergencies, despite the wettest June on record. Last month firefighters carried out scores of rescues and protected vital...

Floods threaten to expose the impact of frontline cuts and refusal to act on key Pitt review proposal in England and Wales

06 Jul, 2012 By infobo

The Fire Brigades Union is warning that this weekend’s floods threaten to expose the impact of frontline cuts and the lack of a legal duty on fire services to respond to flooding. Nearly three thousand frontline firefighter posts have been axed since the 2007 floods which stretched the fire service...

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