Not Yet Nigel

Today when you reset your clocks, West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue suggest you check your smoke alarm. 

BUT there are always a million reasons why you never do 

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Not yet  Nigel, its only 5 to 6,

I'm waiting for the Easter bun

To bring my chocolate fix

Not yet Nigel, there's such a lot to do

The rabbits chewed the carpet

So I've put them in stew

Not yet Nigel, its time to cook some lunch

But its not quite 11 yet

I think i'll call it "brunch"

Not yet Nigel, its time watch TV

Nigellas on and licking spoons

Food porn it is to me

Not yet Nigel, I'm off to B & Q

I'm British, on bank holidays

Its what the natives do

Not yet Nigel its time to make some tea

Shopping for shelves and gloss paint

Gives an appetite you see

Not yet Nigel, I'm tired and need a snooze

My feet up on the sofa

And I'll watch the evening news

Not yet Nigel,its time to go to bed

I've drunk too much  (of gin I think)

I have a pounding head!

Oh shit Nigel the house is burning down

I didn't check the smoke alarm

It didn't make a sound

I'm DEAD Nigel, whatever shall i do

I should have checked the batteries

like you had told me to

Tomorrow check your smoke alarm,

No go do it NOW!

Cos West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue

Need to get the risk rate down

SMOKE ALARMS LET YOU WATCH YOUR HOUSE BURN DOWN FROM THE OUTSIDE

(but contrary to what they will have youthink they don't reduce the risk of you having a fire - they just prevent you dying in it. 

Enjoy the Trip

Tomorrow the firefighters who are currently based at Gipton and    Stanks are going on a "works outing" to Normanton Fire Station to have  a look around and see what the proposed new station to be built at Killingbeck   may be like. 

Normanton Fire Station 

Station Commander at Gipton - Nigel Kirk told the Inner East Area Committee  way back in  September 2012 that the plans had already been submitted to Leeds City Council for the new station. 

On checking we discovered this was untrue. In fact to the best of our knowledge  these plans are not yet in the public domain. All we know is that it is to be a three appliance bay station (with two appliances). 

Normanton Plans   It is interesting to note the ground floor community room has a separate  entrance lobby, kitchen and toilet  (with full disabled access we assume). Is this so that the local community can use the facilities? And indeed the planning application actually refers to the building as a "community fire station"  However the papers of the Finance  Resources Committee of WYFRA held in  13th July 2012 it was specifically stated that non of the fire stations to be closed and sold as part of last years integrated risk management plan were NOT current classed as community assets as they were not used for social welfare or social interest purposes.  The papers are available to download HERE We think this may be untrue!   Isnt the  Gipton Young Fire fighters Scheme  a Social Welfare Project!  Extract from Normanton Fire Station Planning Application  FCCL would like to thank the station cat from Gipton informing us of the trip tomorrow, and as she is a little shy of posting herself we would like to point out she has not been invited along nor is there any signs on the plans for Normanton of a cat flap !  We are hoping however that our increasing network of station cats may be able to give us a hint of how the trip went. Lets just hope the showers aren't communal, like the station opened  in the past few years at Bradford!  Gipton Station Cat And if you would like to see something of the lighter side of being a fire fighter we have updated our  page  HERE with something that made quite a few of us chuckle.