Firefighters news


Should Fire and Rescue charge the people who use it?

ISLANDERS are being asked if the Fire and Rescue Service should charge for putting out blazes.


Merger of fire services ‘being looked at’ again

MERGING the airport firefighters with the service in Town is just one of the ideas a value for money review will look at.


Business leaders accuse airport firefighters of holding island to ransom

GUERNSEY is being held to ransom by airport firefighters who want a better pay deal, the Confederation of Guernsey Industry has said.


Airport firefighters go to arbitration

AIRPORT firefighters and States negotiators are again at loggerheads as representatives look towards arbitration to resolve a new pay dispute.


Vale house fire: Man, 58, rushed to intensive care

A MAN suffering from smoke inhalation was rushed into intensive care after a fire broke out in his living room.


This was no place for a camp fire

PEOPLE should never light a fire in areas where there is undergrowth, the Fire and Rescue Service has said.


Royal blaze is retiring fire chief’s most memorable

HELPING to put out a fire at the former Royal Hotel in the early 1990s is one memory that will always stick in the mind of retiring chief fire officer Nigel Acton.


Fire chief ‘makes tough but necessary choices’

FIRE service funding cuts have meant tough decisions on staffing and dropping fire training for pre-schoolers.


Above-RPI pay deal for Town firefighters

TOWN firefighters have received an inflation-busting pay rise.


Video – Firefighters take to the skies

FIREFIGHTERS took to the skies over the Little Russel yesterday as they were lowered onto a moving vessel from a helicopter.

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