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'Scrapheap challenge' response to hotel blaze shows #IsleOfWight #fire service on brink of critical failure


The service was unable to initially send the right number of fire engines (three) due to the poor availability of appliances on the Island. Instead, it initially sent two, leaving just two fire engines available to cover the whole of the Island.

The service was also unable to provide a second aerial ladder platform, again due to a lack of firefighters.

Island services were transferred to the mainland for cost savings. Unreliable ferry service to #IOW used in emergency to move mainland fire engines

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#Safety #fire #Hampshire #fails


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tom grzybow
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Ferry fire-fighting equipment? It is cost-saving to let things burn?
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Most places have fire-trucks screaming down the street to catch the blaze as early as possible. Here they seek to charter a ferry?
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They don't charter a ferry.

They arrive on the next scheduled ferry.

However both car ferry operators routinely cancel ferries. A lot of the time without notice.

Never used to be like that. Believe the Isle of Wight ferries are still the most expensive per mile than any other. Perhaps worldwide.

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