Firefighters’ manifesto to protect Britain
7 November 2023
Firefighters have launched a manifesto to highlight risks of fire and flood and the impacts of service cuts.
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The Grenfell Tower Fire - and accountability
The public inquiry set up soon after the Grenfell Tower Fire completed its hearings last November and is expected to publish its final report in 2024. There’s much to learn already…
Grenfell: no control, no accountability
Tenants at Grenfell Tower could not have done more to attract attention to the risk of fire. But they were up against more than penny-pinching profiteers – a whole system had been designed to take control away from them…
Fire deaths were preventable
Alongside the terrorist outrages of the past two months, the horrific fire which swept through a Kensington tower block on 15 June stands apart as a wholly preventable event.
Fire: Big rise in deaths
The latest figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show that 294 people died in fires in England during 2015.
Essex firefighters to walk out in jobs fight
10 January 2015
Firefighters in Essex, members of the Fire Brigades Union will walk out for part of their shift on 14 to 16 January in protest at plans to cut up to 200 jobs.
London mayor ‘risking lives’
20 November 2014
The Mayor of London has been accused of risking lives with fire brigade response times rising in the wake of 10 station closures and the withdrawal of 13 further engines earlier this year.
Playing games with safety
The government wants to integrate the emergency services. The unions involved know what this really means: cuts in services, jobs and standards.