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Tony F:

--- Quote from: "beast5680" --- did you know new recruits when trained dont actually see flames because of health and safety issues
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Not true in the case of Hertfordshire, unless they have changed their policy in the last two months. I have attended various meetings at the Fire and Rescue Service training centre in Stevenage, the last being in October and witnessed the trainees tackling fires out the back.

In fact I was told they are looking for a new training centre because of health and safety considerations, not to the trainees but to the housing estate on one side and the school right next door :shock:

At the end of the day, they did a great job =D> and despite what has been said, they did have a plan and they exercised regularly at Buncefield but in the circumstances the explosion and fire far exceeded anything the "experts" told them should occur.

True the FBU were trying to prove a point about reducing resources as a result of the current "Modernisation" programme but they seem to have stabbed their own members in the back in the way they chose to do it!

murph:
The FBU are on the bandwagon trying to get more support from there members, any chance and they are there.

No fireservice can prepare for a fire on that scale, major disaster plans are always in place for an event like this but until it happens we will never know if they will work, and they always change according to conditions.

Live fire training is done in Essex and it is a fantastic training course, it gives you utter respect for the fire, believe me you need to repsect fire.

Hats off to the Herts boys and all the brigades who supported them, =D> We had a memo yesterday at our station not to use foam on any training drills, short supply, can't think why.
 :)  :)  =D>

Sider:
If anyone can be bothered, look up Escombreras Refinery. That was in 1969, but the technology and methods of firefighting have not evolved that much and in that one, not only half the fire brigades of the South of Spain were involved, but the Army and Marines, as well as the Navy helped extinguishing it, and yet it took about a fortnight just to control it.

Anyone who dares have a go at Herts fire Brigade should hang their heads in shame. In my opinion, they have done a grand job, and my praise and admiration goes to them, starting on the grunts, and up to the Chief Officer.

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