Flooding - again !

[Blue Maverick]

What do you mean they dont get paid?

Fire service is funded for what they do house fires, RTCs, community work etc, they have no statutory duty to attend floodings, therefore they are not funded for them, all these boats you see are bought and paid for by the fire service through there budgets, therefore they are using money that should be used elsewhere to fund it. This also means we are not paid for doing this, we do it for free as there is no one else capable of doing it, this is similar to what they want us to do in attend emergency medical response, we are not funded and don’t get paid for it, so we told them to poke it. Now if we did this with floodings I wonder what shit storm that would cause?

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Fire service is funded for what they do house fires, RTCs, community work etc, they have no statutory duty to attend floodings, therefore they are not funded for them, all these boats you see are bought and paid for by the fire service through there budgets, therefore they are using money that should be used elsewhere to fund it. This also means we are not paid for doing this, we do it for free as there is no one else capable of doing it, this is similar to what they want us to do in attend emergency medical response, we are not funded and don’t get paid for it, so we told them to poke it. Now if we did this with floodings I wonder what shit storm that would cause?

Thanks. Understand now.
Keep up the great work (not meant to sound patronising)

 

[Eccles Blue]

@Blue Maverick wow, that is something I was never aware of. I’ve always had the greatest admiration for all of our emergency services, especially the Fire Service, as a cousin of mine was killed in a fire on shift as a fireman in Birmingham, but that has raised you all up even higher if that were possible. Thank you.

 

[bluethrunthru]

and we are back !! - 2024 and flooding again. Still building in inappropriate places. inadequate drainage/sewage provision whilst under funding the people charged with flood defences then pirates and highwaymen running the rivers authority plus climate change denial - a toxic mix that unless addressed will never be solved.

As I type this building has started for yet another new development in the town where I live in a field that is really a swamp in winter - this week they have mostly been rained/flooded off. Of course the farmer who sold it to the developers has retained what he probably calls the "Top Field" because thats where he now has Llama's , geese and donkeys on his hobby farm.

 

[Bill Walker]

Build more high rise, impossible to get flooded on the 43rd floor ;)

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Fire service is funded for what they do house fires, RTCs, community work etc, they have no statutory duty to attend floodings, therefore they are not funded for them, all these boats you see are bought and paid for by the fire service through there budgets, therefore they are using money that should be used elsewhere to fund it. This also means we are not paid for doing this, we do it for free as there is no one else capable of doing it, this is similar to what they want us to do in attend emergency medical response, we are not funded and don’t get paid for it, so we told them to poke it. Now if we did this with floodings I wonder what shit storm that would cause?

It's the least they can do. I mean, let's face it - when it's pissing down and everywhere is flooded they won't have many fires so will be at a loose end.

 

[JRockBlues]

Anyone for water polo...

 

[mexico1970]

Anyone for water polo...

Damp towel and a hair drier, it'll be reet.

 

[Blue Maverick]

It's the least they can do. I mean, let's face it - when it's pissing down and everywhere is flooded they won't have many fires so will be at a loose end.

But there is the darts league and snooker knockout to play

 

[bluealf]

But there is the darts league and snooker knockout to play

I read your post from 2019, do you get budgeted for it now?

I was reading it thinking it was called the Fire and Rescue Service but when I looked that seemed to have been from a 2004 act outlining...

There are four key responsibilities for FRAs that they must ensure that they make provision for including:

• extinguishing fires in their area
• protecting life and property in the event of fires in their area
• rescuing and protecting people in the event of a road traffic collision, and
• rescuing and protecting people in the event of other emergencies.

Hopefully, you are.