Flooding

The Fire Brigades Union has responded to today’s National Audit Office report into flooding resilience in England, calling for a statutory duty for fire and rescue services to respond to floods and the resources to match. The report finds that approximately 5.7 million properties at risk of flooding...

Today, Wednesday 1 November, hundreds of firefighters and control staff will assemble in Westminster to launch a new ‘Firefighters’ Manifesto’. As the country recovers from flooding, and braces for the realities of climate change, the union warned that politicians must “listen to the voice of the...

Storm Babet exposes “urgent need” for investment in fire service, says union Emergency calls go without response due to lack of resources Firefighters’ union demands statutory duty on fire service to respond to floods in England, with funding to match The Fire Brigades Union is calling for urgent...

Increased mass flooding events and record number of wildfires require more frontline firefighters As climate change has intensified, firefighter numbers in the UK have been fallen by 11,200 Greenpeace UK, Green New Deal UK, Friends of the Earth and Campaign Against Climate Change amongst groups...

Fire and rescue services won’t be ready for major threats to the UK without more firefighters, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has warned, as new figures show brigades have faced the Covid-19 pandemic with 11,237 fewer firefighters than in 2010. We can’t fight incidents like mass-flooding and Covid-19...

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has called for fire and rescue service funding to be included in budget measures to improve flood preparedness, as analysis reveals almost 11,000 firefighter jobs have been cut in the UK since the major floods of 2011. The findings come after the government last week...