WCoFF NEWS Desk
Our Master, John Mansfield, appeared on an edition of the Antiques Roadshow broadcast on October 22, 2017. He was featured showing a brick which was donated to our Company on its formation. The brick came from the bakery in Pudding Lane in which the Great Fire of London started in 1666. The item can be viewed on BBC iPlayer 20 minutes after the start of the programme: View iPlayer lin ...
The festival of Diwali takes place every year this year it falls on 19 October. It is known as 'Festival of the Lights' as it is believed that light signifies goodness and 'diyas', or oil lamps, and candles are burnt throughout the day and into the night to ward off darkness and evil. Fireworks are also used in the celebrations. The use of naked flames increases the risk of fire at Diwali ...
Paul Fuller CBE, Bedfordshire's Chief Fire Officer and Chair of Trustees of Children's Burns Trust visited Lakeview Primary School in Bedford on Tuesday (17/10). On the eve of Burns Awareness Day (18/10), CFO Fuller spoke to a group of Year 6 children about ‘Stop, drop and roll” which is used when clothing catches fire. With Halloween just around the corner Bedfordshire Fire and Re ...
A landlady with two properties in Paignton has been sentenced to eight months in prison suspended for 18 months after pleading guilty to offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Kay Godtschalk, the owner and landlady of 2 Warefield Road and 15 Esplanade Road in Paignton, appeared at Exeter Crown Court on Monday 9 October 2017. She pleaded guilty to a total of eight offenc ...
Eleven students have graduated from Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service’s (CFRS) Firebreak course, a programme designed to inspire young people in the county. Students from years 8 to 11 from Jack Hunt School in Peterborough graduated at an impressive pass-out parade at Stanground Fire Station on Friday September 29. They demonstrated their rescue and drill skills in front of proud par ...
The AGM of the Society was held recently at the Headquarters of the County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service. The meeting was chaired by the President of the association, Liveryman Jon Hall. The picture shows Jon being greeted at the Headquarters building by the Society’s Chairman of Committees, Ralph Horton. Jon had just been transported to the meeting from Durham railway st ...
