Driving instructors in Shropshire are being invited to join the fire and rescue service, Safer Roads Partnership and local councils in a joint campaign aimed at cutting the number of road collisions involving young people.
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12th August, 2015
Firefighters wearing special gas-tight suits and using breathing apparatus “rescued” three students from Wrekin College in Wellington on Monday (Aug 10) following a gas and chemical leak.
But the dramatic “rescue” was part of a life-like...
27th July, 2015
A novel fire safety campaign will be launched by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service in August as it links up with the county’s mobile library.
Their fire prevention team will hop aboard the library van in August as it travels through...
23rd July, 2015
The horrors of a gas explosion, how a car rescue is made and a cave rescue team in action are among the highlights of an open day at Telford Fire Station on Saturday, August 8.
A team from the Midlands Cave Rescue will use the 100ft high...
16th July, 2015
A brand new car has been "destroyed" - but it’s all in a good cause to train the emergency services in Shropshire.
College students helped to strip down and rebuild the former demonstration car in their car maintenance classes....
10th July, 2015
Shropshire firefighters joined colleagues from around the world to commemorate the 30,000th sounding of the Last Post at Belgium’s Menin Gate in honour of the missing war dead in WW1.
Firefighters at Wellington and Shrewsbury fire...
3rd July, 2015
Private landlords will have to fit working smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in their properties following a change in the law due to be introduced in October.
The new regulations will require landlords to install smoke alarms on every...
18th June, 2015
Shropshire firefighters carried out an exercise last night to practice their firefighting skills attending a rural farmhouse "fire".
Firefighters from Craven Arms Fire Station were called out to the scene at an empty cottage at Corfton...
12th June, 2015
A Shropshire farmhouse has been “donated” for a day to firefighters so they can practise their firefighting skills.
The empty cottage under renovation at Corfton Farm in Corvedale Road will be pumped full of white cosmetic smoke...
1st June, 2015
Fire safety experts are warning people to allow tumbled dried laundry to cool before its put away following a series of fires.
Experts suspect that a number of recent and puzzling fires in different parts of the UK, including one at a...
