Simon has an FRU - a little transit van !

This morning in the Yorkshire Post we read with interest of fire crews in South Yorkshire refusing to staff Small Incident Units - the equivalent of Fire Response Units (FRUs)  in West Yorkshire. The full article can be read HERE

Which got us thinking about FRU's and as we were in a poetic mood, look what the FCCL team came up with 

( we thinks its rather ...........good.)

Simon has an FRU

A little transit van

He drives it round the streets of Leeds

Put fires out – IF he can!!!

An FRU is very small

With not a lot of kit

No substitute for propers crews

In fact it’s really..............  (insert word of choice)

What use are FRU’s to me ?

I hear you cry with glee

They keep attendance figures low

(the’re creeping up you see)

For little fires they aren’t so bad

But little fires grow

And when they are so well alight,
a proper crew must go.

Once Simon took his FRU

To Moortown. long ago

I spoke to people crewing it

They told me  tales of woe

“It cannot put out car fires”

“This red vans such a farce”

So Simon take your FRU

And drive it up your..............(again please insert word of choice)

We here at firecutscostlives think

An FRU is wrong

When fat cats up in Birkenshaw

Have done their sums “pete tong”

And one day soon, someone will die

And then we all will say

“We told you Simon, did you hear

What firefighters say ?”

Reducing front line services

In such a viscous way, 

no smoke alarm or FRU

Will change what we all say.................

FIRE CUTS COST LIVES

We have before mentioned a paper written by  the Fire Brigades Union called "It's about time" it was ages ago,  in an article of the same name available HERE   The paper its self has a very interesting item on FRU's in which it talks of one based in South Yorkshire. 

The full document is available Here but for speed we enclose an excerpt below

However today has not been all doom and gloom - we are hearing reports from Morley that over 2,000 people have signed the objection to Morley Station Closing. 

The information is on the Morley Independents blogsite which is just a click away so please click here for the Morley Independents Blogspot

And as  this page has in the main been full of positives - if you want to see something that is so bad it's good click  Here to see Blaze Bear in action decorating his Christmas Tree - the continuity is truly dire (watch the fireplace!)