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Three Peaks Challenge 2008 110808 (PICTURES NOW LOCATED IN PICTURE GALLERY) PICTURED here is Graham Wood, handing over a cheque for £500 for the Fire Fighters Charity, to Watch Manager Dave James and Charity Rep / Firefighter, Dan James (Front), watched by Tenbury firefighters: L-R FF Roy James, FF Neil May, CM Ashley James, FF Mark Houchin, FF John Higgins, FF John Davies, FF Mark Mason and FF Pete Whitby. The Three Peaks Challenge is to climb the three highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales (Scafell Pike, Ben Nevis and Snowdon) within 24 hours, including travel time. Graham and his team completed the challenge in a time of 17 hours, 26 minutes over 26th-27th June. (PICTURES NOW LOCATED IN PICTURE GALLERY) Pictured L-R: Ken Wright (Driver), Dave Powell, Dave Lloyd, Chris Good, Andrew Tipton (Driver), Tom Davies, Graham Wood. Graham would like to thank the local shop keepers and everyone who sponsored the team. Appliances to have digital radio installed 090808 ALL fire appliances and officers cars within Hereford and Worcester are to be kitted out with a new digital radio on the "Airwave" digital network, to replace the current ageing analogue system. The rollout of the new system is expected to start in Hereford and Worcester during Autumn 2008, when the system will "go live". The new communications equipment comes as part of the national "Firelink" project, which will see every fire appliance in the country kitted out with the same digital radio system. Launch of new mobile phone website 150808 You can now visit our site more easily on the move... You can view the latest additions to the website on your mobile phone, by accessing our new mobile phone site, by going to www.tenburyfire.co.uk/mobile HWFRS Produces Draft 2009/10 IRMP Action Plan 180608 Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service have produced their latest draft IRMP for consultation. The IRMP outlines the services plans for the year 2009 to 2010. Read the full plan on the HWFR website here. The main points are :
Fire Services Could Merge See BBC News Story - details can also be found in the IRMP News Story (Above). Warwickshire Fire & Rescue Service could merge with Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service under a joint review by both services RTC Exercise, Nr Nash, 100508 Fire Crews from Tenbury Wells, Cleobury Mortimer, Droitwich Spa and Wellington, along with the Urban Search and Rescue Team attended an exercise, at Nash, Nr Tenbury, on Saturday (10th May 2008). Crews were to deal with a multi-vehicle RTC involving two cars under the bed of a lorry. A crew from Tenbury rescued 1 casualty from an overturned vehicle, that was wedged under the lorry, while crews from Cleobury dealt with another car. 532 Tenbury RP FFH06P1 Cleobury Mortimer 268 Droitwich ISU 269 Droitwich Crew Transport Wellington Rescue Tender USAR Module 2 USAR Module 4 USAR Crewbus See the Picture Gallery for photos and the newspaper report Updates to Tenbury Fire Website 010508 Our returning visitors may notice a few modifications to the site. Over the last few days, we have been working on the site, as you can see below. We have added some watermarked images to the page banner, altered the layout of some of the pages, modified all of the tables in the site so that they are now all in the same styles, as well as adding a new improved desktop alerter for download. There are also a number of new images dotted around the site.
If you don't already have it, why not download the New Alerter Update : 180508 Further images and page modifications have been made. (Retained and Role in "About Us", Recruitment in "Operations", and the entire fire safety section.) The flood warning and weather warning page has also been given a new permanent home in the "Safety" section of the site, and will become the homepage when major flooding risks occur.
New Uniform for Firefighters 250408
The new uniform is gradually being rolled out across the country to give the fire and rescue service a nationally identifiable uniform. The clothing colours are red, charcoal grey and light grey. We believe the logo on the t-shirt has been removed. .
New Website for H&WFRS 300408 Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service have now launched their new website. Visit the official site at www.hwfire.org.uk
BBC Drive to Stay Alive 160408 BBC Hereford and Worcester and BBC Midlands Today are currently running a "Drive to Stay Alive" campaign.
See the links below; New Web Form Service 050408 As a result of spam email, we have now removed our own hosted web form from the "contact us" page of the site. We are now using Bravenet Web Tools to provide our "Web Form" facility on the site. The new form is similar to the old one, but requires a four digit code to be entered into a box to confirm that you are posting a genuine message. Hopefully this will solve our spam problems. We are pleased to announce that as we have paid for the service, all advertising and popup windows have been removed. The following was added : 07/04/08 We have now extended the new webform to the links submission page. To submit your website to our links page, you will now need to enter a four digit code. New Name for FSNBF The Fire Services National Benevolent Fund is to be re-launched with a new name and new branding. "The Fire Fighters Charity" will continue to support it's existing beneficiaries, and hopes that the new branding will draw in an extra £4M per year within three to four years to help an extra 5000 people annually. The new logo is based on the famous "Saved" image, of a firefighter rescuing a small child from a fire, and brings the charity's image right up to date. The new website for the Firefighters Charity is www.firefighterscharity.org.uk The new name comes into force on the 15th March 2008.
Firefighter's thanks for generosity 080308 Tenbury firefighters would like to thank everyone who attended the recent (8th March) car wash, held as part of National Car Wash Day, on the Palmers Meadow car park in Tenbury Wells. We'd also like to thank Melvyn at Hatton Stores, (Teme Arcade, Teme Street, Tenbury Wells) for supplying wash and wax and sponges, and local retailers/ Sunshine Radio for displaying posters/advertising. Firefighters washed cars from 9am up until around lunchtime, without a break, raising a total of £274.76 for the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund. Links : New Canine Recruit 120208 Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service is one of seventeen FRS's across England to receive an Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) dog, to be used for sniffing out casualties trapped under collapsed structures. Each USAR dog receives between eighteen months to two years training, before being kitted out with it's protective equipment. New Look Website 1/1/08 Welcome to the new look Tenbury Wells Fire Station website.
We hope you like the new design, the site is designed to link in with the new UK fire service national uniform colours being introduced later on this year. (Charcoal, Titanium and Red). Every effort has been made to check all of the links are working properly, and to iron out any little glitches, but should you find one, please let us know. Following feedback from our visitors, we have already added a "Home" link to all pages of the site.
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Firefighters in Herefordshire and
Worcestershire are about to get a new look. HWFR are to purchase a
new uniform for all of its personnel as part of the "National
Clothing Project" (NCP) being run by the organisation, "Firebuy"
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