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The Director of the famous TV series ‘Londons Burning’ lives in Windsor and has kindly sent us this message of support:
Imperative that Windsor’s fire stn stays open 24 HRS.  I had the good fortune of directing more than 30 episodes of “London’s Burning” over 10 years & had contact with firefighters from the top [...]

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When Firefighters enter a burning building wearing Breathing Apparatus they lose sensory perception: They cannot see through the poisonous, dense smoke, they cannot hear audibly as the smoke smothers sound too, they cannot smell since they have a mask on, they cannot taste and they cannot feel properly since they wear thick gloves.
The Four Warwickshire Firefighters [...]

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My colleagues upon Green Watch have informed me of an incident which they attended on the NIGHT Watch on Friday 23 November.
Windsor Firefighters were first on the scene, but unfortunately due to the timescales in which the fire had been burning, a man lost his life. Bracknell wholetime and retained crews were also on the [...]

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Now you can envisage what it will be like if Windsor is CLOSED at night…
On 19 November, the Windsor appliance was sent to a car fire in Fuzzons Walk, Dedworth at 18-28 hours.
Whilst they were there, a call came in from the Co-op in Dedworth Road, Windsor. A fridge had caught fire. Because Windsor was unavailable, [...]

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Today, we’ve arranged for 15,000 campaign leaflets to be sent to EVERY household in the Windsor and surrounding areas. They will arrive on doorsteps next Wednesday.
We’re starting to think ‘BIG’ now and a very visible aspect of our campaign will appear in January next year!
When it comes to public and Firefighter safety in east Berkshire, we [...]

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One could reasonably believe that the people who dreamed up the notion of closing Windsor Fire Station at night, were from another planet?!
Especially when you consider the value of the Windsor appliance within east Berkshire. The afternoon of the 15th November demonstrates this; Slough Firefighters were dealing with an incident and Windsor were called to standby at Slough.
Windsor [...]

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The value of the Windsor appliance cannot be underestimated when Brigade resources are stretched. As observed on Wednesday 14th November…
The Windsor appliance was sent to a minor fire at a house in Henley-upon-Thames. They jointly attended with Henley 1, the Oxon appliance.
Once that incident had been dealt with Windsor were then sent to cover Bracknell [...]

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On 9th November at 01-02 the Windsor night crew were sent to a 3 pump house fire at Leiston Spur,Slough. 4 Breathing apparatus wearers, 2 high pressure hosereels and a main jet were used to suppress the fire. The crews were at the scene for 2 hours.The fire had been very intense and there was [...]

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My formal complaint about Opinion Research Services…
As a result of practices observed during the ‘public consultation’ period, I wrote to the seemingly professional body to which ORS belong –the Market Research Society. As you will observe from my e-mail to the Director General (dated 10 October 2007), they were incompetent, evasive and ineffective during the [...]

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The crews at Windsor Fire Station wish to send their deepest sympathies to the families, friends and colleagues of the four Firefighters killed during operations in Warwickshire. Our thoughts are with you. We are all aware of the dangers of this profession, but are nevertheless shocked by such events.They left for the night shift, but [...]

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