The Christmas holiday has been a busy time for staff at Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Permanently on call at the county’s 23 fire stations, they have dealt with a total of 193 calls since the beginning of December, reported Deputy Chief Fire Officer John Redmond.
Fire crews were involved in a number of severe incidents including:
Arriva has been helping Shropshire firefighters get over important fire safety messages over Christmas and the New Year – on board buses in both the Shrewsbury and Oswestry areas.
The bus company has put up one of the brigade’s warning posters urging people to “stand by their pan” when cooking in the kitchen. More than 60 per cent of house fires start in the kitchen – many when people leave the room with pans on the hob.
Rabinder Dhami, team leader of the community fire more
Shropshire firefighters who pulled two people stranded in deep water to safety had just been trained in water rescue techniques.
Fast flowing flood water was less than a metre away from where a woman was being kept afloat by a heroic young soldier who dived into the River Severn to save her from drowning. Andrew Simpson, a Private with the Mercian Regiment, clung onto a branch to keep the pair above the water line as they waited for rescuers to arrive.
Bridgnorth firefighter more
On the evening of Wednesday 14 October Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust hosted a training exercise at its Ludlow Hospital site to test emergency procedures; this was a joint exercise where Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service was also involved. The simulated incident was a fire gas explosion in a service tunnel this had knocked two maintenance engineers unconscious and one further maintenance engineer had managed to escape the tunnel with minor injuries to raise the alarm. The emergency more
The Safer Roads Partnership in West Mercia is warning motorists in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire to be prepared for potentially hazardous driving conditions tomorrow as heavy rain turning to snow is forecast for the Midlands region in the early hours of Friday morning.
The Safer Roads Partnership is urging drivers to be prepared for potentially hazardous driving conditions tomorrow and in the event of severe weather follow their advice about driving on snowy, icy and more
At a packed Shrewsbury Cathedral, around 400 friends, families and guests of Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service gathered to celebrate the season of Advent and the birth of Christ.
The service was led by the Brigade’s new chaplain Reverend Murray McBride with music and song performed by the children of St Winefride’s RC School, Shrewsbury. Children, together with the congregation, were enlightened to the spirit of Christmas by an animated Reverend McBride who conducted his sermon from more
A firefighter training exercise at a Shrewsbury hospital has rekindled memories of a fire tragedy from the 1960's.
Firefighters wore breathing apparatus to run into Shelton Hospital to rescue people reported trapped – but it was purely a training exercise for fire crews from Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service.
But in a remarkable co-incidence it mirrored a real incident which happened at the same hospital in 1968 when 24 women died in a huge blaze in one of the hospital wings more
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is now a partner in the Age Action Alliance along with dozens of organisations from across the voluntary, private and public sectors who are coming together to celebrate the lives of older people and address the challenges of our ageing society.
The Age Action Alliance was launched on the 30 September to coincide with Older People’s Day celebrations and will work together to improve the lives of older people and help transform communities into more
A major training exercise will be launched by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service at Shelton Hospital, Shrewsbury, next week.
Firefighters from Shrewsbury, Minsterley, Bishops Castle and Baschurch will react to an emergency call reporting a major fire at an accommodation block at Shelton Hospital with people reported missing.
They will respond as usual to the event which will give firefighters the opportunity to practice operational procedures and rescue techniques while more
Shropshire firefighters are learning how to handle animals at a Shropshire farm to help them carry out animal rescues in the county.
Farm animals, including bulls and cows, are rescued by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service after becoming trapped on farmland while horses and a variety of other animals including geese, ducks, sheep and dogs can also find themselves in need of help from fire crews.
“It's important that firefighters know exactly how to behave around animals when we more
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