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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Dave Hill

London fire service: "modernisation" details

Adam Bienkov has been reading some small print:

Crucially, the "options paper" reveals that the changes could lead to slower response times. Under the heading titled "Disadvantages" officers admit that the changes could create "a lack of WMs [Watch Managers] available causing longer journey times to incidents". In other words, it would take longer for firefighters to attend fires than under the current system.

His full post is here. Bits of background here.

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