A team of football playing Firefighters' have won a local Charity 5-a-side tournament organised by St Marys Youth Initiative .
The event took place at St Mary's School and raised £100 to help fund the local 'Community Hut'. The project is hoping to raise £80,000 towards the building which will be situated at the Grove in Bridgnorth.
Eight teams took part in the event including local Police officers, firefighters, the Beavers' group, Bridgnorth Town Youth team, Bridgnorth more
A campaign to reduce the death and injury toll on Shropshire roads has been launched by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Hard hitting graphics with a range of road safety messages are now on the back of fire appliances around the county.
Firefighters are also working with Road Safety Professionals to promote the use of child safety seats to coincide with new laws being brought in on September 18 which demand that children under 4ft 5ins tall must be belted up in a child car more
On Saturday evening an Incident Commander from Shrewsbury and fire crews from Baschurch and Oswestry were called to an incident involving a hot air balloon that had crash landed in a field near Platt Bridge, Ruyton-XI-Towns. A specialist off road vehicle from Church Stretton was also sent to the incident.
Incident Commander Neil Grove said, "The balloon landed next to live overhead electric power cables in the field with the canopy draped over the cables. The balloon was involved in a more
Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority has launched an "extensive" public consultation exercise to get feedback on proposed changes to the service outlined in their draft integrated risk management action plan for 2007/08.
The plan details progress with the Fire Authority's main priorities up to March 2008 which are the implementation of the findings of an in depth review of the retained firefighters duty system, provision of fire safety education in rural parts of the county and a more
Leading Firefighter Mark Jones of Shrewsbury Retained whisked his new wife Sharon away in a non-traditional carriage—the new Wellington fire appliance— to take them to their wedding reception.
The couple were definitely doing things in style with Sharon arriving at the church accompanied by 6 Minis, in 'Italian Job' form, followed by their first journey as Mr and Mrs Jones in the brand new fire appliance.
After their mini adventure on 2 September, Mark and Sharon are more
Working with the Camera Safety Partnership, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service are promoting road safety messages aimed at the target age groups of 16 to 25.
Nationally and locally, young drivers between the ages of 16-25 years old have the highest killed or seriously injured rate per head of population.
In order to promote the reduction in the number of young people killed or seriously injured in this age group we are supporting the Camera Safety Partnership with their more
12 months ago a firefighter thought what a great idea it would be to cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats ... and so begins the story..
Following weeks of organization, meetings and training sessions, a group of ten firefighters from Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service cycled from Lands' End to John O'Groats over a ten day period.
During their preparations for the event, the team quickly came to realize that other people could benefit from their adventure. As such they decided more
Posters warning people not to jump into the river to cool off this summer are being put up across Bridgnorth district as part of the next phase of an unusual campaign.
The Don't Drink and Drown initiative to call time on people risking their lives by jumping into the River Severn has been running at pubs throughout the summer.
Special beer mats bearing the hard hitting message have been sent out to drinking spots to make people think twice before they jump into the river or more
Three off duty firefighters on their way to a stag night in Blackpool have been praised for putting into action their "lifesaving" skills after a high speed car crash on a busy Shropshire road left three people trapped and seriously injured.
Baschurch firefighting trio Simon Bendall, Pete Lewis and Craig Willis were stuck in the ensuing traffic jam on the A5 between Oswestry and Shrewsbury between Shottatton and Queen's Head on the day of the crash in August last year.
They more
A fire officer has urged the Shropshire public to take extra care during the Summer heatwave in the wake of 100 outdoor fires in the past week.
Firefighters have attended callouts to fires raging in gorse, heather, hedges, woodland, bushes, grass and fields across the county.
Five grass fires were dealt with during one call in Whitchurch Drive, Telford, while heather and gorse has set on fire on the Longymnd in Church Stretton and woodland reported ablaze at the High Rock, more
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