News:
THE FIRE BRIGADES UNION Immediate Release - 9th June 2011 Give local people a real say in how their Fire & Rescue Service is Run The Fire Brigades Union have welcomed the opportunity for IW councillors to debate … [Read More...]
Fire Brigades Union Officials are dismayed that Cabinet Member for Fire and Community Safety, Councillor Barry Abraham, will be making a decision on the transfer of the Island’s emergency fire control to Surrey Fire and Rescue Service … [Read More...]
Fire Brigades Union Officials have strongly condemned the release of the Delegated Decision Report, issued on Friday 15th April, which recommends the outsourcing of the answering of emergency fire calls to Surrey Fire and Rescue … [Read More...]
Save the Isle of Wight Fire Control Centre - Sign our petition; Download the Save the Isle of Wight Fire Control Centre petition as a PDF Please return the completed petitions to: Isle of Wight Branch Fire Brigades Union Fire … [Read More...]
A secret document outlining the costs involved with the permanent closure of the IOW’s only emergency 999 fire control room have been leaked to the Fire Brigades Union. If approved it would see Isle of Wight council tax-payers subsidising … [Read More...]
Local Knowledge:
VOIP (voice over internet protocol) is relatively new way to make calls. The calls are made via a desk phone or via a phone similar to a mobile phone. Calls are made by plugging the phone into any available internet socket or via a Wifi … [Read More...]
Face the Facts - Money To Burn, BBC Radio 4 Firefighters need the right equipment and back up if they are going to save lives. But millions of pounds have been spent on state of the art control rooms that may never be used, fire engines … [Read More...]
Politicians would love you to believe that technology can solve all the problems and allow for the taking of 999 emergency fire calls to be handled hundreds of miles away from the location of the caller or the incident, without the call … [Read More...]
Featured:
Save the Isle of Wight Fire Control Centre - Sign our petition; Download the Save the Isle of Wight Fire Control Centre petition as a PDF Please return the completed petitions to: Isle of Wight Branch Fire Brigades Union Fire … [Read More...]
The Regional Fire Control Centre (FiReControl) Project (7 years, £423m, £52m on consultants, 5 years behind schedule) has today been scrapped by the Government. However, the fight continues to keep the Fire Control Centre on the Isle … [Read More...]
VOIP (voice over internet protocol) is relatively new way to make calls. The calls are made via a desk phone or via a phone similar to a mobile phone. Calls are made by plugging the phone into any available internet socket or via a Wifi … [Read More...]
Face the Facts - Money To Burn, BBC Radio 4 Firefighters need the right equipment and back up if they are going to save lives. But millions of pounds have been spent on state of the art control rooms that may never be used, fire engines … [Read More...]
This and the previous Government have suggested that local fire controls, taking emergency 999 calls, should be regionalised or sub-regionalised. Millions have been wasted on the FiReControl project, which was to have regionalised the Fire … [Read More...]
Politicians would love you to believe that technology can solve all the problems and allow for the taking of 999 emergency fire calls to be handled hundreds of miles away from the location of the caller or the incident, without the call … [Read More...]
As any emergency fire control operator will tell you they regularly experience emergency 999 calls that require local knowledge. The assertion from many politicians that local knowledge is no longer required is extraordinarily … [Read More...]