The district council leader says on call firefighters can be hampered by geography
The leader of Ashfield District Council fears "lives will be lost" if the area's fire station is not fully re-opened, as a consultation on doing so closes. Ashfield Fire Station lost its full-time crew in 2018 and since that time, it has been operating from 8am until 6pm with 12 full-time firefighters, then relying on on-call firefighters outside of that timeframe.
The service at the time of the 2018 arrangements said the alternative would have been redundancies or station closures, but it now says that it could invest £660,000 in returning Ashfield to a full-time station. This sum of money is the amount that the service says would be saved by removing the night-time shift from West Bridgford instead.The West Bridgford move has provoked controversy, with figures including Rushcliffe MP Ruth Edwards expressing opposition.
"So these arrangements have really put lives at risk and people have noticed that because they read in the press more often about fire deaths. It's 8-6 full-time and from 6-8 it's reserve firefighters. "It's an absolute no-brainer that it's back to full-time. I genuinely think this will continue to cost lives if we don't undo it."
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