Category Archives: FIRE Editor

FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch asks whether or not the Fire and Rescue Service could do better As CFOA President Lee Howell reflects on his year in office and his association’s objectives of becoming ‘stronger professional, influential politically, stable financially’, it … Continue reading →

    FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch questions how the Fire and Rescue Service can hope to protect the public and safeguard its firefighters in an age of austerity FIRE gives much of the July/August issue over to firefighter safety in … Continue reading →

FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch reports on introducing an integrated approach to fire protection: Fire UK is facing a difficult dilemma: how to provide an effective service in a restrictive economic environment. Throw in an increasingly divided society and the problem … Continue reading →

FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch states the case for clarity in an increasingly complex fire world ‘Fire: Cost and Consequence’ was the theme of this year’s Fire Lecture, hosted by the Worshipful Company of Firefighters and held in partnership with the … Continue reading →

FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch reflects on a monumental boost for sprinkler installations in the UK The biggest bug-bear for sprinkler campaigners the UK-over is not concerned with the mythical soap-opera-themed exploding sprinkler head, nor the fictitious fabric-tearing havoc wrought by … Continue reading →

Following poor government advice during the fuel tanker dispute, FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch supports recent proposals for a high-level strategic body in the fire sector There is a fine line between priming the public to be prepared and spreading blind … Continue reading →

FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch addresses a harsh new world Delegates at last month’s parliamentary sprinkler seminar were given a harsh reality check when Cllr Brian Coleman told them to stop talking between themselves and get out there and make a … Continue reading →

FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch turns a spotlight on the experts who can help take the fire sector forward during hard times The fire sector is facing ‘the opportunity of a lifetime’ according to one of the UK’s foremost political lobbyists, … Continue reading →

FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch offers support to the Fire Minister in the drive to install domestic sprinklers in all new homes in England  “Successive governments have treated the Fire Service with benign neglect for decades,” former Fire Minister Mike O’Brien … Continue reading →

FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch reflects on the inspirational life of ‘Smokin’ Joe Frazier, who died this week An acquaintance of mine was at a party with Cassius Clay back in the swinging sixties and somehow found herself perched on a … Continue reading →