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In last weeks Royal Borough Observer newspaper, the Chief Fire Officer made reference to the future culling of yet more retained (part-time) fire stations and said, ”Even if we were to take all the retained stations away, Windsor would not be directly affected because it is bordered by whole time stations all the way around”.

The simple fact is that Windsor frequently backs up Slough, Langley and Maidenhead (reference the latter, the Windsor crew recently attended a high profile fatal house blaze).

So who will plug the gap if Windsor is closed? This is a $64 million dollar question, since one senior control room operator has described Windsor as ‘the glue which holds east Berkshire together’.

Now consider the type of fire as reported in this weeks Midweek Observer entitled, ‘Fire crews rescue dozen’ which states;
‘Firefghters struggled through smoke to rescue 12 people trapped in a burning building.
Officers from Slough, Windsor and Langley were called to Oban Court in Montem Lane, Slough at around 2 am on Monday. Six firefighters with breathing equipment freed the trapped people.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.’