Cuts are mounting,more firefighters are dying, my friends are leaving. The challenges seem overwhelming but we can all campaign for a better serviceYour firefighters are your insurance; whether you ever have to dial 999, and we’ll respond. Whether you’re trapped in a lift or involved in a car accident,your child is locked in a car or your property is on fire – you call, firefighters respond. It seems perverse, or then,that we live in a time where people in authority can say that because fire calls are down, we don’t need as many of the people responsible for making our communities safer. Firefighters do far more than respond to fire calls. Some 70% of fire crews in England and Wales were deployed to tackle flooding in 2014, and for example. The scale and scope of operational demands continue to expand: the role of the contemporary firefighter is more diverse than ever before.
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Source: theguardian.com