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21st September, 2010

More than 100 turned out to celebrate the opening of Cleobury Mortimer's new look fire station which has just been refurbished.

A special ceremony to formally re-dedicate the station took place last week when Brigade chaplain Rev Peter...

9th September, 2010

Shropshire firefighters “rescued” stranded casualties in a water training exercise which mirrored real life rescues carried out on the fast flowing River Teme at Ludlow.

A total of 40 firefighters from Ludlow, Craven Arms, Shrewsbury and...

2nd September, 2010

A “bizarre” idea to store a person’s medical details in a bottle in the fridge could prove a “lifesaver,” say charity raisers who are spreading the word about the scheme with the help of Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Firefighters are...

20th August, 2010

Firefighters want the people of Cleobury Mortimer (population 2,500) to come and visit the town’s new look fire station which has just been refurbished.

A special ceremony to formally re-dedicate the station takes place on Saturday,...

13th August, 2010

Hundreds of Shropshire residents witnessed at first hand how quickly a family could be trapped by fire in their own home.

Actors played the roles of panicked householders as smoke filled a house on a busy Telford housing estate in less...

11th August, 2010

Emergency crews have been trained in how to deal with radiation incidents at a training event organised by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Fire officers called in the help of experts from the Government’s Health Protection Agency to...

11th August, 2010

Shropshire firefighters are to “rescue” stranded casualties in a water training exercise to mirror real life rescues carried out on the fast flowing River Teme at Ludlow.

The training exercise is due to take place on September 8 between...

14th July, 2010

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service attended a fire at an industrial unit on Halefield 19 at 5.25pm on Sunday 11 July. A large amount of wooden pallets bins and containers were alight outside the factory causing a propane cylinder to explode in...

13th July, 2010

A family is trapped when fire breaks out in their home because they didn’t have a working smoke alarm – that is the stark message for Shropshire householders in an eye-catching demonstration of a house fire.

Actors will recreate the family...

12th July, 2010

The story of how a Shrewsbury fire control operator kept a trapped householder calm as she waited for fire crews to arrive at her smoke logged Shropshire home will be re-told on BBC TV on July 13.

BBC Real Rescues went back to interview...

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