A Shropshire town has the unenviable record of being the motorcycle death and accident capital of the UK, it was revealed today.
Proportionately there are more bikers killed and seriously injured in and around the picturesque town of Bridgnorth than anywhere else in Britain, says the Community Safety Partnership.
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service, whose firefighters are regularly called to recover the dead and rescue the injured from road crashes, is working with Bridgnorth more
Shropshire and Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Services' held a joint exercise on 9 May 2008 in Nash, Nr Ludlow.
The aim of the joint exercise was to improve working practices between the Services' and to evaluate search and rescue equipment used at road traffic collisions and building collapses.
The scene was attended by approximately thirty firefighters along with three organisers and three observers. Combined fire crews included Tenbury Wells and Cleobury Mortimer more
Ashley Brown, a retained firefighter stationed at Bridgnorth will be fund-raising and raising awareness for Asthma UK, in memory of his son Cameron.
Cameron had a fatal Asthma attack aged two in February this year.
Ashley will be doing a series of walks and challenges throughout the year, starting off with the Bridgnorth Sponsored Walk on 26th May 2008. This is a 22 mile walk starting and finishing in Bridgnorth, with the route taking in the summit of Brown Clee hill. He will more
Just before 1am on Saturday 10 May two Appliances and an Incident Commander from Shrewsbury were alerted to a strong smell of burning and a smoke detector activating in Worcester Road, Harlescott, Shrewsbury.
On arrival Firefighters had to gain entry to a property through a first floor window using a ladder as no one could be raised at the address.
Following a brief search, one male adult was discovered asleep and was led to safety.
The fire involved food on a grill more
Bridgnorth District Council have launched a joint initiative with Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service to boost recruitment of Firefighters in Bridgnorth. The District Council have agreed to allow its employees to join the towns' fire station and to respond to emergency incidents whilst at work.
Chief Fire Officer Alan Taylor said "We welcome the opportunity to work in partnership with the District Council. We have 28 fire appliances in Shropshire of which 23 are crewed entirely by men more
Wrockwardine Wood Arts College has won the annual fire safety quiz organised by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service beating ten other Shropshire schools to take the coveted 2008 title.
A total of 33 of the county's senior schools originally entered the popular competition entitled Be Cool Be Safe which delivers important safety messages to 6,000 year 7 pupils each year.
Wholetime firefighters from 14 watches "adopted" a senior school, regularly visiting classrooms, to get over more
Press release by Safer Roads Partnership
The Safer Roads Partnership in West Mercia is today launching a new campaign, aimed at motorcycle riders, to help reduce casualties and deaths on the region's roads.
Motorcycles last year represented 1% of road traffic but accounted for 18% of all fatalities nationally. Over the past three years in Shropshire and Telford there have been 28 fatalities and 542 casualties following collisions more
Shrewsbury teenagers visited the county fire HQ as part of a Skills for Life course.
A total of seven youngsters aged from 16 to 19 learned about home fire safety, the importance of having smoke alarms and an escape route in case fire breaks out in the home.
Students attend a talk about home fire safety by Community Fire Safety Officer Delyth more
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service's Fire Prevention department is one of the first in the UK to go fully digital with tons of "critically important" fire safety paperwork – some dating back to the Second World War.
A total of 1½ million documents containing vital fire safety information were stored in an archive that was "bursting at the seams."
Since the introduction of the Government's Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order in 2005, SFRS has seen a threefold increase in more
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is believed to be the first brigade in Britain to meet the tough high standards for environmental management under the British Standards Institute's ISO 14001.
The Shropshire brigade from its Shrewsbury HQ achieved the international standard by introducing a range of environmental initiatives – including recycling the oil filters used on fire appliances - covering all its 23 fire stations spread out across the county.
Over the past year more
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