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Explore the Firefighter magazine archive

By Amy Gardener
As part of our centenary celebrations, all issues of Firefighter between 1932 and 2001 have been made accessible online for members and the public for the first time. Over the course of a year, the staff at Warwick University Modern Records Centre, the home of the FBU Archive, scanned each page of...
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Historic editions of Firefighter magazine made available online for first time

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As part of the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU) centenary celebrations, all surviving issues of Firefighter magazine dating back to 1932 are being made available to browse online in what is believed to be a first for a UK trade union. The union’s journal gives a priceless insight into the development of...

Firefighters 100: Firefighter magazine – online archive

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Dear Brother/Sister Firefighters 100: Firefighter magazine – online archive As part of our work around our centenary we have engaged in a project with the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University...

13 years ago today - Harrow Court

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Thirteen years ago, on 2 February 2005, firefighters Jeff Wornham and Michael Miller gave their lives in the line of duty at Harrow Court, Silam Road, Stevenage. They had rescued one person from flat 85 on the fourteenth floor, but died trying to save the life of Nathalie Close. Three families’...
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New film tells story of firefighters and their union over 100 years

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A new film, The Firefighters’ Story: 100 years of the Fire Brigades Union, is being launched in Bristol this Sunday, 4 February, on the anniversary of the death of firefighter Fleur Lombard, who died on duty after arsonists set a supermarket alight in 1996. The hour long film traces the history of...

Blaina: 22 years on

By Cerith Griffith
The lessons learned in the aftermath of a fatal fire in South Wales where two firefighters were killed are still with us says Cerith Griffiths, regional secretary of the FBU in Wales. THE DATE 1 February 1996 will be forever etched in the minds of the residents of the small valley town of Blaina...
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Firefighters 100' The centenary year of the Fire Brigades Union

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This year will mark 100 years since the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), the first and only UK trade union to champion the specific needs of all firefighters, was founded in 1918. Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, said: “This is an opportunity for firefighters and the communities they serve to take a...
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The Smithfield Fire 1958 - 60 years on.

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General Secretary, Matt Wrack, explains the importance of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary since the Smithfield fire in the latest FBU video. The 1958 Smithfield fire was reported to be one of the capitals worst fires since the blitz. Two professionals, Station Officer Jack Fourt-Wells and...
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Sixty years on from the Smithfield fire

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The tragic Smithfield fire led to the deaths of two firefighters in 1958. It also kickstarted a union campaign to modernise the Breathing Apparatus. ARGUABLY the greatest ever achievement of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in the fight for firefighters' health and safety post-war has been the...
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