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25th July 2008
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WORCESTER WARRIORS TRAIN WITH FIREFIGHTERS
First team players and coaching staff from Worcester Warriors teamed up with Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service recently for a training session with a difference.
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19th July 2008 |
ARSON SUSPECTED AT EVESHAM SCHOOL
Fire Crews from Evesham, Broadway and Pershore carried out a successful twenty minute fire fight to prevent a fire from spreading further inside Swan Lane First School, Evesham on Saturday, July 19. Watch Manager Toby Kempton said, "It was a 'good stop' by the crews. In another few minutes we may have lost the school". Following an investigation, it was determined that the fire had been started deliberately. |
17th July 2008 |
UNATTENDED TUMBLE DRYER CAUSED SERIOUS FIRE DAMAGE TO HOUSE
A four bedroom house at Warndon Villages, Worcester was badly damaged by fire and smoke after a tumble dryer caught fire while the family was at the cinema. Two crews from Worcester attended on Friday evening July 17. Four Breathing Apparatus and two hose reels and positive pressure ventilation were used. The Red Cross Family Support Unit also attended. The family's pet dog was recovered. |
6th July 2008 |
CHINESE TAKE AWAY DAMAGED IN ARSON ATTACK
A Chinese 'take away' premises in High Street, Stourport, was damaged when fire spread from outbuildings nearby that had been set alight deliberately.Crews from Stourport, Kidderminster and Bewdley attended in the early hours of Sunday July 6. No was was injured. |
5th July 2008 |
CAR DRIVER KILLED IN RTC INVOLVING BUS AND LARGE TRACTOR
The driver of a VW Golf died in a RTC involving a large tractor and a double decker bus on the A4 outside the Red Lion public house at Peterstow on Saturday July 5.Crews from Ross on Wye, Whitchurch and Droitwich attended. It was the second fatality to occur on Herefordshire roads in three days. |
4th July 2008
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WOMAN RESCUED BY LADDER FROM BEDROOM FIRE
Firefighter Keith Massom of Green Watch, Malvern, helped a woman to safety with a ladder rescue from a bedroom window at a fire in a house in Sling Lane, Malvern shortly after midnight on Friday July 4. Another woman,who jumped to safety injured both feet in the fall.Both women were taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhallation.The injured woman was detained at the Worcestershire Royal. The fire, which started in the front porch of the terrace property, spread to the roof space.Arson is suspected. |
2nd July 2008 |
TWO OFF DUTY RETAINED FIREFIGHTERS GAVE RTC CASUALTIES FIRST AID
Two off duty firefighters, Simon Powney of Kingsland and Chris Valentine of Eardisland, gave first aid to two casualties who were trapped in two cars on the B4529 Leominster to Kingsland road on Wednesday night July 2. Both Simon and Chris arrived at the scene from opposite directions shortly after the collision. Using their training, they mobilised the emergency services and gave first aid and reassurance to both the male driver of a Peugeot and to the woman passenger of a Ford Fiesta. Two crews from Leominster succeeded in an hour long operation to free both the injured,who were taken to hospital by ambulance.The woman driver of the Fiesta was pronounced dead at the scene. |
16th June 2008 |
Service Publishes Latest Integrated Risk Management Plan
Opinions Sought on Fire Service Plan
People across Herefordshire and Worcestershire are being urged to have their say on the way the Fire Service is set to run over the next few years.During the Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Authority meeting held on June 16, Members heard how its Fire Service intends to improve community safety and remain efficient. Its Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) sets out a broad range of priorities which will be delivered over a three year period.Chief Fire Officer Paul Hayden said: “These proposals have been designed as a ‘balance package’ of measures, meeting both our ambitions to improve community safety whilst meeting the financial realities we face. We know that we have to be efficient following our disappointing government budget settlement this year and our proposals suggest ways in which we can make savings without impacting community safety. However, there are areas in which we need to spend even more money than before, and this money also needs to be found through efficiencies. This balanced package therefore contains proposals for an additional £100k investment in crucial Firefighter training.”
Brigadier Peter Jones, Chairman of the Fire Authority, said: “These are only draft proposals at this stage and that it is why it’s vital to gauge the opinions of our communities and we will amend this plan if necessary following the consultation responses we receive.”
The plan details a number of initial objectives for 2009/10. These include:
- Adopting a new proposed response standard for fires in buildings and maintain current standards for Road Traffic Collisions - this objective seeks to maintain current standards in urban areas but improve the level of service in our most rural areas.
- Reducing the Firefighter establishment by 12 posts - that is a reduction of one post from each watch at Redditch, Bromsgrove and Kidderminster, resulting in efficiencies of approximately £420,000 – we are not proposing change to the number of fire fighters who ride on fire appliances. We currently employ eight people on each watch at these stations to ensure that five are available after leave and sickness. Our proposal to reduce this to seven people employed to ensure we have five available would bring us back in line with other stations across the UK.
- Streamlining back office services to achieve efficiencies of approximately £200,000
- Review arrangements for the management of leave and improve the management of sickness absence to support the reduction of operational posts.
- Make an investment of £100k to support the cost of cover of arrangements to enable the release of staff for critical training.
- Continue to examine further opportunities to deliver efficiency savings and service improvements – including collaboration/combination with another Fire and Rescue Authority.
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