Love it 🤣

It would be off the "run", and another machine would be sent out to replace it within a few hours. What you are specifically talking about is rare though, it's much more likely that a mechanical part fails before the terminals do.

Just thinking that myself, very male, stale and pale...hardly representative of one of the most culturally diverse cities on the planet...perhaps that is why they are called white watch.

LFB recruit acceptance, and later promotion should, amongst many other things, rely on merit, attitude, aptitude, personality, intelligence and humanity and should have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with politically and ideologically influenced box ticking.

Greenacres: I have a granddaughter who is half Chinese and one who is half Greek, and it would greatly annoy me if they were to be able to join the London Fire Brigade on the basis of their sex and ethnicity and not their merit. It appears though that you are sexist and racist. Stale, pale and white? That’s me! Thanks for that! Much appreciated, especially your hilarious pun on white watch. Oh, wait…🤔 PS: to both of the above commenters, I spent over 21 years in the London Fire Brigade and was a station office for eight years. Just in case you were under the misapprehension that I didn’t know what I was talking about.

Firefighters are sent where they are needed. When a vacancy becomes available on a watch, they send whoever is most suitable (taking into account travel time to work, where they live etc).

That is very profound but at some LFB stations you get an all female crew together on regular shifts. Amublance service had been more diverse ever since. More women, different background different ethnicity.