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A popular meet for Shropshires motorbike riders (weather dependant)

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 the heat. The force of this blast blew a hole in both the wall of the factory and the roller shutter door, setting fire to items inside the factory.

The cause of the fire is still being investigated by the Police and Fire Investigators, but it more

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’s panic while smoke fills the three-bedroomed semi of an empty Wrekin Housing Trust property in less than two minutes in the drama due to unfold on July 29.

Firefighters deliberately chose a Telford housing estate in Donnington – an area hit more

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 the people involved in the dramatic rescue which happened last year. The programme recreating the scene will be broadcast at 11am on Tuesday, July 13.

Oswestry businesswoman Eirwen Day (44) dialled 999 on that fateful day after seeing smoke more

On Sunday 4 July 2010 a regional exercise organised by Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service took place at Kingsbury Oil Terminal. It is the largest inland oil storage depot in the United Kingdom. The exercise involved all five counties within the West Midlands region and Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service supplied a High Volume Pump (HVP) and crew.

The objective of the exercise was to test the regions HVP water relay capability, to supply 15, 000 litres of water to the oil terminal, more

On Saturday, 12 June 2010, Baschurch Fire Station personnel held a Community Open Day and invited the public, retired station personnel and former Brigade officers living locally to join them at this event, to also celebrate 25 years since the new station was built and opened.

Deputy Chief Fire Officer John Redmond and the Chair of the Fire Authority, Stuart West, both addressed the assembled visitors, with the Chair cutting the ribbon to mark the occasion.

This was followed by more

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service gathered on Monday 21st June at St. George’s Church, Pontesbury to mourn the death and celebrate the life of Mat Evans. The funeral service was led by Reverend Silvia Turner and Brigade Chaplain Reverend Peter Barnes.

Officers, Fire-fighters and staff joined with Mat’s family in paying tribute to a professional firefighter, loving father to Mollie, son, brother, and steadfast friend.

Mat was born on the 9th July 1980 and grew up in the shadow more

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