WCoFF NEWS Desk
Communities across the county have helped Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service (BFRS) raise an incredible £143,368 for The Fire Fighters Charity through clothes recycling banks. Last year alone almost £14,000 was raised through The Fire Fighter’s Charity clothing banks in Bedfordshire – the highest total ever since the scheme’s inception. Since 2010, a to ...
Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) along with its partner from the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) has been shortlisted for a prestigious healthcare award for its work on Community Wellbeing Officer initiative. Finalists for the HSJ Awards 2024, the healthcare sector’s premier awards event of the year, were announced on Monday 12 August. The initiativ ...
Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is handling 999 calls quicker and getting to fires faster, newly released statistics have revealed. The Service has seen landmark improvements in the measures in the latest publication of incident statistics by the UK Home Office. The performance data was released last month (July) for the 2023-4 financial year and is the first opportu ...
With temperatures heating up in Bedfordshire this week, Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service (BFRS) would like to remind residents of important outdoor fire safety and water safety advice. Prevention Group Commander for BFRS, Rob Hulatt said: “We tend to see an increase in calls to fires during spells of hot weather. This does result in our crews spending significant time at incidents that co ...
A mural has been unveiled in central London in honour of two firefighters who died while responding to a fire 20 years ago. Adam Meere and Billy Faust died tackling a fire at a three-storey building in Bethnal Green on 20 July 2004. Today, we remember firefighters Billy Faust and Adam Meere, from Whitechapel Red Watch, who twenty years ago tragically lost their lives responding to a fire ...
Safety education at the forefront for World Drowning Prevention Day Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service (BFRS) is marking World Drowning Prevention Day (Thursday 25 July) by running two training sessions on the embankment in Bedford. Despite global efforts, drowning remains the leading cause of death in all countries across the world. World Drowning Prevention Day provid ...