Oh thats nothing lads
The two brigades I work for are going regional and amalgamting with four other brigades within the next 10 years.
Loads of fire stations will go, and pumps will be parked up at strategic points waiting for calls.
There will be regional" stations" where crews can grab refreshments and do training - the rest of their time will be spent on the road - called to wherever they are needed, running around the new enlarged super-county brigade patch
Blue sky thinking Im told. Must be great for reducing the brigades carbon footprint with appliances that do on average 8 mpg, but then I guess theyre thinkin its more environmentally to do that than powering and heating lots of fire stations.
If it isnt broke dont try and fix it, alas the cynic in me says we have been had. And the beds? wow well they take them away and give you easy chairs at £400 a pop, that are supposed to recline but dont, so the brigade then spends more money to buy the model that does recline !
The snooker tables and recebntly purchased special super dooper reclining chairs are now being taken away.
The shift patterns were changed, didnt work, cost more money, now theyre thinking of changing it back.
Ranks to roles havent really achieved anything accept cost the brigade a lot of money/
Its not the change I object to so much (although change for hange sake does annoy me) what i do dispair about is the obscene ammount of money wasted by UK Brigades - if the general public heard about what goes on they wouldnt be overly impressed!
