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Make safety your key ingredient when cooking this Summer – that is the message from an award winning Shropshire chef and Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Community fire safety officers have linked up with Shrewsbury’s Café Saffron owner Abdul Husen, who won the Shropshire’s curry chef of the year award, to help highlight the importance of safety when cooking.

Many fires are caused by both indoor and outdoor cooking, warned Rabinder Dhami, Team Leader at the county brigade’s more

On the evening of Wednesday 25th July crews from Much Wenlock and Shrewsbury took part in a small scale drill to test the existing contingency plan in place for Willey Hall.

Willey hall is a large country estate house which is still in private ownership, and still lived in by Lady Forrester.

Prior to the evening members from the Group Support Teams (GST) had visited Lady Forrester on a few occasions, to discuss the issue of water supplies and salvage. It was more

On the evening on Wednesday 18th July crews and appliances from Craven Arms, Clun and Bridgnorth took part in a water supply exercise at Clee Hill quarry organized by the Group Support Teams.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service has now worked in partnership with Hanson Aggregates, who manage and run the quarry, on two separate occasions to facilitate a water supply exercise at the location.

The crews were ‘mobilised’ to a scenario of a fire within a bitumen plant more

Home fire safety presentation to Shrewsbury Carers Group.

For more information about Shrewsbury Carers please contact Angela Evans on 01743 341 995.

For further information about the presentation or to book a presentation please contact Delyth Humphreys, Community Fire Safety on 01743 260 279.

This year on the 10th & 11th August Shrewsbury Flower Show, ‘The World’s Longest Running Flower Show’, will be celebrating its 125th year.

With appearances from James Martin, Oysterband, Chris Beardshaw, over three millions blooms, hundreds of trade stands and 12 hours of arena activity, it promises to be our best Show ever!

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service will be attending along with our Community Outreach Vehicle and a Fire Appliance. So if you're more

Just over 70 firefighters and officers from around the county worked tirelessly for 7 hours yesterday tackling a severe fire on the Stiperstones National Nature Reserve.

Specialist vehicles recently purchased by the service for this very occurrence with 4 wheel drive capability proved a fantastic asset in supporting the firefighters as they moved water and equipment around. Due to the severity of the fire and the size of the area that has burnt, firefighters remained at the scene more

An appeal has gone out for more members of the public to apply to become retained firefighters across Shropshire.

Contributing to saving someone’s life is “quite a buzz”, said the man in charge of Ellesmere Fire Station.

During the day Steve Moorhouse (49) is an Operations Manager at a leading Shropshire company. Responsible for ensuring that Lloyds Animal Feeds is working smoothly, Steve is also the Watch Manager at the town’s fire station.

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See a chip pan on fire and witness how firefighters free road accident victims from the wreckage of their car – at an open day at Shrewsbury’s new fire station this Saturday.

Firefighters will also demonstrate how they rescue people using safety lines from the fire training tower.

Youngsters can experience the colourful “smoke tent” to show how they should escape from a smoke filled building.

Fire safety advice will be available to everyone at the event from 10.30am to more

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service will be attending this event.

2012 is the 50th Anniversary of the launch of the MGB, and this year's Shropshire Festival of Transport will have a celebration of the MGB at its core. Last year's show attracted over 3000 visitors, and featured displays from 8 of the regions major vehicle dealers as well as over 300 classic and interesting vehicles, and these numbers are expected to be surpassed as our plans come together for another exciting family day more

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service were alerted to reports of a fire at 05:22am this morning (Sunday) at York Street, Oswestry. As a result 3 Appliances were mobilised from Oswestry, Chirk and Ellesmere.

The alarm was raised by a passerby when they saw flames coming from the downstairs of a terraced property. A lady in her 20’s had escaped from the upstairs at the rear of the property onto a ground floor roof, she alerted local residents to the fact that another lady was still inside more

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