Flooding

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn backed the campaign to give fire and rescue services more resources to tackle major flooding incidents, as he visited firefighters in Cumbria on Thursday. Corbyn spoke to firefighters based at Carlisle East fire station who have spent the last week tackling the fallout...

Fire and rescue services need to be given greater resources to tackle flooding emergencies in the wake of Storm Desmond, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said today. Firefighters have been leading the rescue efforts in northern parts of the UK, where the storm has overwhelmed flood defences, despite...

As Storm Desmond batters the UK, firefighters have raised concern at the chronic underfunding of fire and rescue services as they respond to flooding. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) reports that every service responding to the floods have seen unprecedented cuts in funding over the past five years...

Firefighters have raised concern at the serious underfunding of the fire and rescue service as they respond to floods and other emergencies as a result of Storm Desmond. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) report that every fire and rescue service responding to the floods across northern England have seen...

Firefighters have called for urgent action to tackle the soaring number of flood related emergencies they are being asked to respond to. Firefighters attended just twelve flood incident emergency calls out of 54 between midnight and 5am last Friday (17 July) due to the fire and rescue service being...

An influential House of Commons committee has agreed with the FBU that cuts to firefighter numbers could undermine future emergency responses to flooding. The Environmental Audit Committee used findings from the union’s Inundated: The lessons of recent flooding for the fire and rescue service report...

Responding to the publication of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s report into the 2013-14 winter floods, Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said: “Firefighters are on the front line when floods take place, yet the government is slashing fire and rescue...