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20 January at 23-25 hours. Home Park, Windsor. Car Fire. One breathing apparatus/ one high pressure hosereel. 
21 January at 10-56 hours. Manor Farm House, Manor Farm, Windsor. Elderly persons home. Kitchen fire. 
22 January at 19-21 hours. Centrica, Maidenhead Road, Windsor.Electrical fire in chlorifier. 
24 January at 15-56 hours. Underwood, Great Hollands, Bracknell. House fire. Four [...]

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The Brigade has a Charter which heralds the fine words, ‘People should be listened to-no matter how tough the message.’ Bearing that in mind, Mr Tidbury the Assistant Chief and one of the main architects to close Windsor Fire Station arranged the BANNING of this website upon EVERY Fire Station within Berkshire. No consultation, negotiation or [...]

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Windsor Ablaze! That’s the ironic title of the superb new book by Alexandra M.Brown and Charles Chapman, which is published by Lutterworth Press.
As a firefighter who attended the catastrophic Castle fire, I found this book compulsive reading, packed with vivid photographs.
It is said that history repeats itself? In 1987, the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue [...]

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Red Watch at Windsor attended a fire within a Royal Mail Letterbox on the night duty of Saturday 19th January. It was at about 10pm in Hatch Lane, Windsor and someone had deliberately set the contents alight. The crew were on the scene within 1 1/2 minutes and quickly saved some mail by quelling the fire [...]

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Blue Watch, the night shift at Windsor were called to a bathroom fire at Castle Farm, White Horse Road, Windsor today at 08-24 hours. Bearing in mind that Windsor Firefighters attended a fatality at a caravan site last year, this fire was also within a similar fixed unit dwelling. Such homes are usually in very close proximity to [...]

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Windsor Firefighters have recently attended a diverse range of incidents which reflect the value of emergency fire cover in the area… 
10th January at 21-13 hours.Albert Street, Windsor. Car fire, 2x Breathing apparatus wearers, hydraulic rescue equipment. 
11 January at 11-48 hours.Holmlea Walk, Datchet. Fire emanating from an electrical socket. 
12 January at 09-54 hours. New [...]

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At present, those who reside within a large radius of Heathrow Airport are being publicly consulted on plans to expand this major travel hub. The local papers are regularly running full page adverisements listing open public meetings.
The residents of Windsor and the surrounding areas were not afforded such  luxuries when the Brigade proposed to CLOSE their [...]

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A front-runner of the proposal to close Windsor Fire Station is now leaving the Brigade!
Des Tidbury, the Assistant Chief of Berkshire, will be transferring to Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service in a couple of month’s time. Mr Tidbury was the manager who announced to Blue Watch at Windsor Fire Station, that he had ‘spent two years [...]

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The Firefighters at Windsor wish you all a very safe, happy and healthy New Year.We’re sure that you all appreciate the value of having 24 hour emergency service fire cover…
Even as 2007 came to a close on 28 December, Blue Watch rescued a person who had attempted suicide at
Tarbay Lane, Dedworth, Windsor. Paramedics alerted [...]

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