STOP CUTS TO THE FIRE SERVICE !!!

The pole and upper floors are no longer in use now, they now work in a new building next door but the appliance bays still used

stay strong brothers from your brother in the American Fire and emergency service we know your pain too

That cow noise was brilliant, Can’t beat a bit of banter

It's always the same. Public services in which the employees work because they want to help other people will always be under pressure from politicians, the ones who hold the purse strings. They will keep paring away personnel, changing the rules and trying to get the same service for less money. Nothing changes - 'the beatings will continue until morale improves'. It was like that for the many years that I was a firefighter, so I feel empathy for those currently serving while also being concerned that the proposed cuts will cost a great deal in human suffering. The trouble is that if a family loses a loved one, it's the firefighters who will get the blame, not the politicians who cut the service. They can't lose. It's a bloody tragedy.

The firefighters should equip cameras to there helmets when the are inside a burning building or any other call out to be honest to show it's not a " semi-skilled" job and to show the government they are putting lives at risk if they make cuts on important services like the fire service, a service which should be receiving money not having it taken away from them!!!

If any of my family die through fire brigade cuts those at the top will be having their funerals next.

Seems this is an issue worldwide.Fire fighters get paid shit and when there's cuts to be made the council or Mayors seem to go after the fire fighters first.Your life revolves around the fire brigade or dept and with a swipe of a pen you are gone.I'm sure if the powers that be look a little harder they can find other areas to cut rather then the Fire Fighters.These men and women are special people and should be taken care of.God Bless All Fire Fighters.

@ac40city1 new ones retire at 60, I personally wouldn't like a 60 year old fireman turning up at my front door

The fire service is a job I have always wanted to do and with the spending cuts it is difficult for them to do the job they need to do

this my dream job always wanted to join the wmfs but its so hard to get in due to the bloody budget cuts

Most dangerous jobs 1. Fishermen 2. Merchant seafarers 3. Aircraft flight deck officers 4. Railway lengthmen 5. Scaffolders 6. Roofers and glaziers 7. Forestry workers 8. Quarry and other mine workers 9. Dockers and stevedores 10. Lorry drivers

The Firefighters pension scheme is very much like Cyprus, BANKRUPT. That is why changes to scheme have been made, mind, you will still have one of the best pensions of any public sector workers, and can only be dreamed of by people working in the private sector.

The ones making these sort of decisions don't fully comprehend the impact of the decision they have made. One of the "I'm alright Jack" brigade

@ac40city1 never let facts get in the way of spouting venomous jealous bile.

cool

Never understood why the entrance tests are so high to become a Firefighter, which is at best, a semi-skilled job. Very difficult to follow a bit of string with knots into a building,and learning that if you put the wet stuff on the hot stuff, the hot stuff goes out. But just a an observation you understand.

"Never understood why the entrance tests are so high to become a Firefighter, which is at best, a semi-skilled job." Actually, they're not that high. But obviously too difficult for a Walter Mitty like you, though.

Firefighters are sooooooooo!!!! hard done by, retire at 50 with the equivalent of a lottery win payout and a nice pension for the rest of your natural. Would please stop playing the "it's so dangerous" card, not even in the top ten occupations (postman come's higher up the list) of hazardous jobs. Don't worry about leaving the job if you don't like the higher pension contributions or new shift patterns you might have to do some work, forty applicants for every firefighters post.