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Entries from December 28th, 2007

Food for Thought.

December 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Windsor crews have been to a few kitchen fires recently… The first was on the 19th December at Kipling Court, in York Road Windsor.
The second was on 23rd December, at Connaught Court, Alma Road,Windsor. (This address has incurred 2 seperate kitchen fires this year)
Both of these fires occurred during the night shift and both were within elderly [...]

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Busy, busy Windsor: A few calls of interest.

December 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

14 December 20-10 to 21-35 hours.Forest Road, Dedworth.Boiler incident. 
16 December 14-21 to 15-00 hours.Montgue Road, Datchet.Gaining entry to a private property where an 82 year old woman had collapsed. 

16 December 15-41 to 16-00 hours.Gordon Road, Windsor.Reports of flames coming from a chimney top. 

16 December 16-45 to 01-05.Honesty Bottom, Brightwalton (Berkshire/Oxon border)The Windsor Incident Control Unit [...]

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Banner and The Ban!

December 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Our campaign banner is flying high in Windsor at the moment. It’s a huge 10×1 metre display with ‘SAVE WINDSOR FIRE STATION’ upon it and our website address. The banner is presently affixed to the King Edward Court Car Park in Charles Street and is within full view of all those approaching central Windsor along [...]

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Time=Lives

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

If Windsor is closed at night, the Brigade hope to rely upon Slough Fire Station which is already the second busiest station in the county?
So, if you live in the Windsor area, it’s going to a be a lottery of life as to whether you will get an appliance from Slough and whether it will [...]

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The Enigma Variation

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Brigade managers have described the town of Windsor as an ‘enigma’ yet still wish to deprive east Berkshire of the services of this station at night. So, let us examine this enigma?
Our station ground is very expansive and covers central Windsor, West Windsor, Fifield, Winkfield, The Great Park, Old Windsor and south Datchet covering a [...]

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A Vision of the Future…

December 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Matt Wrack, the General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union has rather prophetic words relating to the past, present and future of the Fire Service.
The following are quotes from the FBU document entitled ‘A Fair Deal for the Fire Service’ which are directly relevant to the downgrading of Windsor Fire Station as part of [...]

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