Righty before you read anymore - watch this video
Regardless of whatever South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue try to convince you about response times, you have THREE MINUTES to evacuate your house if you have a fire.
Fire and Rescue response times matter !
Scared................Concerned ............Frightened ................. GOOD so you should be
FIRE KILLS - and you will never ever see a smoke alarm rescue somebody
from a burning building. That is a fire fighters job, some would say a vocation.
BUT
the Karma Fairy has been waving her wand again and as we start to blog about South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue the news is full of incidents that have over the past few days stretched South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue to breaking point.
On the 29th May there was an explosion in Dundas Road, Tinsley, Sheffield.
At approximately 9am Agostinho Jesus went to leave his property when a huge explosion ripped through the house. Mr Jesus describes the incident on the BBC website here and thought he was burning alive!
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| Courtesy of the BBC |
4 pumps and support vehicles attended that incident, including those from the local station Darnell which has been earmarked for closure in this years rounds of cuts in provision
Retained staff had to be brought in to crew resilience pumps there as South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue were so stretched that day.
The incident made the national news, it was on several times during the day. And if you had looked very closely at the screen you might have seen something to shock you. ........
Even though the incident commenced at 9am and went on until 8pm in the evening - the fire fighters on duty remained the same. The officers changed though, i bet you cant guess when it was .............
A) Tea time ?
B) Lunchtime ?
Yes you guessed it - the firefighters (the ones who do the dirty dangerous work) didn't get relieved at all, but the officers were, just in time for lunch.
We bet the Chief Fire Officer was just relieved there
wasn't another major incident that day !
BUT ONLY TWO DAYS LATER .......................
In the early hours of June 1st fire crews were called to Cow House Lane, Doncaster . The fire was in a yard used to store pallets. The alarm was raised at approx 1.30am .
Now I know I am not an expert - but having seen many bonfires that consist in the main of (yes you guessed it)
WOODEN PALLETS
even I, a rank amateur would probably on balance
if I had received a 999 call saying
would have hedged my bets and sent a couple of engines
( just to be on the safe side )
BUT NO - South Yorkshire FRS in line with their "challenging policy" sent just the one engine on a recce !
Oh to be a fly on the wall when they rang back for assistance!
And although on the SYFRS site as a separate incident, we are assured that the fire spread to a nearby industrial park. At the height of the incident over 70 firefighters were involved and engines had to be brought in from West Yorkshire.
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| Courtesy of SYFRS |
And at 9am the same day - another large fire this time in Sheffield attended by 5 pumps and 25 fire fighters at a rubber recycling plant in Monckton.
Fires such as these can happen at anytime - as CFO Jamie Courtney said only last week, "we can reduce the chances of a fire with good fire prevention BUT we cant reduce the severity once it takes place"
Please oppose the cuts in provision in South Yorkshire.
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