WCoFF Fire News Desk
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Article Added: 15 Mar 2020
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service has been putting plans in place to ensure residents across the county will get an emergency response when they need it during the current pandemic. Chief Fire Officer Chris Strickland said: “We want to assure residents that we are taking the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic very seriously. “We have been working closely with our loca…
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Article Added: 04 Mar 2020
A former fire service employee from Cambridge celebrated turning 100 yesterday (Tuesday March 3, 2020). To mark Doreen Piggott’s milestone birthday, Station Commander for Cambridge, Danny Kelly, and firefighters from Red Watch Cambridge paid Doreen a special visit, to wish her a happy birthday and present her with a card and flowers on behalf of Chief Fire Officer, Chris Strickland. Doreen…
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Article Added: 03 Mar 2020
Around 200 delegates from the building and design industries in the region and beyond attended a one-day business seminar on Providing a fire resilient environment for all. Organised by BAFSA in collaboration with, and hosted by, Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service, the event focused on raising awareness of the life-saving benefits sprinkler and suppression systems can provide …
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Article Added: 27 Feb 2020
Recently, we were privileged to make a private tour of the new Liverpool Street Crossrail station. It is a working building site on a massive infra-structure project, so full PPE was needed before we descended about eight floors to platform level. En route we saw the huge investment in plant rooms for ventilation and power supply, and the interconnections for other railway lines and evacuation r…
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Article Added: 10 Feb 2020
Sawston Fire Station has released a new video to help recruit on-call firefighters to their station. Filmed by the crew themselves, the video gives a glimpse of life as an on-call firefighter, as well as showing different aspects of the role, from responding to incidents to developing skills and keeping the community safe. On-call firefighters can be men and women that come from every walk of li…
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Article Added: 04 Feb 2020
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service has launched course dates for Biker Down! for 2020. Now in its third year, Biker Down! is a free emergency first aid course aimed at motorcyclists in Cambridgeshire, and is hosted by firefighters from CFRS and Magpas Air Ambulance. The initiative offers motorcyclists the opportunity to learn practical skills to help avoid being involved in a crash, as well a…
