FROM 6pm today your life will be in the hands of an inexperienced crew and a 50-year-old fire engine.Not the modern gleaming red engines stocked with the latest equipment for firefighting emergencies, but an antique Green Goddess that has been in mothballs for a quarter of a century.
FROM 6pm today your life will be in the hands of an inexperienced crew and a 50-year-old fire engine.
Not the modern gleaming red engines stocked with the latest equipment for firefighting emergencies, but an antique Green Goddess that has been in mothballs for a quarter of a century.
A machine that can only travel at 35mph, that carries no cutting equipment, that is not even equipped with a radio.
A machine that is crewed not by well-trained professional firefighters, but under-prepared RAF and army personnel.
So think twice as you drive home from work tonight or drop the kids off at school tomorrow morning – especially if the expected rain storms arrive.
Because if you have an accident there will be no fully equipped, professional full-time firefighter to come to the rescue.
He or she will be standing outside their fully equipped modern fire station demanding a 40 per cent pay rise.
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