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| Pooch Power | |
A new specialist canine squad is joining the Fire and Rescue Service to sniff out people trapped in collapsed buildings. The canines are being funded by a £430,000 investment announced by Fire Minister Parmjit Dhanda. |
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| INSARAG Team Leaders | |
| The UK will host the 2008 Team Leaders meeting of the International Search & Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG). |  |
The meeting, sponsored by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), will be held in Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire from the 6th-8th May 2008.
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| USAR Grant Funding | |
A Fire Service Circular (62/2007) now provides information on grant funding totaling £16.7million awarded to Fire and Rescue Authorities in relation to the New Dimension Programme. |
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| Breaching Hollow Core Floors |
| The Rescue Operations Working Group recently carried out operational tests on hollow core concrete floors. Rescue Operations Lead, Lee Giffard from Hampshire FRS, offers information to USAR personnel, advises of the potential risks and recommends techniques to be adopted when conducting breaching operations through this type of construction. ..... more |
| Dean Farrar Street |
On Tuesday 12th June 2007, a workman was trapped following a building collapse in Dean Farrar Street, Westminster in the heart of London. |
| Atherstone on Stour |
| On Friday 2nd November 2007 a fire broke out at a large vegetable packing plant in Atherstone on Stour, Warwickshire. Four firefighters tragically died in the firefighting operation, three being trapped in the building when it collapsed. .....more |
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