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Every brigade- or at least every region - should have a fire engineering audit team with skills, experise and equipment to match the best in private industry and should take a close look at some of these ground breaking and large projects that are justified by fire engineering. .
I must admit, I had never really considered how the smaller brigades cope with the demands of IT led fire safety engineering proposals with all it's computer wizardry and engineering speak.
We are spoilt in London having a dedicated team at our disposal and I have been surprised at the relatively high amount of ocassions when proposals have been 'knocked back' as insufficient info has been supllied, or the sums just don't add up to support the strategy.
Although regionalisation is a dirty word in the fire service at present, maybe it makes sense to pool resources into such centres
That's being done in the North West
