Showing posts with label Leicestershire and Rutland Fire Services Oakham Fire Station Cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leicestershire and Rutland Fire Services Oakham Fire Station Cuts. Show all posts

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Leicestershire and Rutland Fire Services Oakham Fire Station Cuts

















Fire Service Cuts, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service is currently holding
a consultation period before it implements cuts that will effect Oakham.
There is a proposal to remove one of the engines from Oakham Fire Station.
Literature circulating states this will leave Oakham with just one engine.
I find this confusing because there are three, I think the third is used by the
retained service and may not count in the figures.

A lot of pressure appear to be placed on Oakham Fire and Rescue and I get the
feeling they actually attend more traffic incidents than fires. Where they do
do a grand job chopping people out of squashed and battered cars. So personally
I can not see the need for any cuts.

Then I question why? if the Fire Authority is so poor why has it spent so much
money on property. This includes turning Oakham into want looks like a
travel lodge and the demolition of Melton Mowbray's station and replacing it
with a costly expensive ugly box.

It is said the savings, cuts proposed for Oakham would give the fire authority
a saving of £97,000 peanuts when you consider the money wasted throughout
the county on property.

The consultation runs until December 31st 2014

http://www.leicestershire-fire.gov.uk/irmp