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Fordbridge Fire Station

Locality: Ashford

Address: Town Lane Ashford, SA, Australia

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16.05.2022 Watch Commander Paul Murphy pictured after receiving his 20 year long service medal with Jay, our Fire Brigades Union Secretary and fellow Fordbridge Firefighter. Before joining Surrey Fire & Rescue 20 years ago, Paul served 5 years in Kent Fire & Rescue. Paul is a fantastic manager, well respected both as an operational Firefighter within the service and an advocate for the values of the Fire Brigades Union, brilliant at the job, knowing it inside out. He will be sorely missed by us all. Question is......where is going. #onwardsandupwards

17.04.2022 **MULTIPLE CREWS IN ATTENDANCE** A major fire at the Hungry Horse in Chertsey is currently being dealt with by several fire engines. #savesurreyseven... Surrey Live

01.04.2022 **PLEASE READ AND SHARE** A busy day for the service. A well developed roof fire in Esher attended by 8 Fire Engines plus the Aerial Ladder Platform from Leatherhead, all whilst several Fire Engines around the county being off the run, due to lack of crews. The Fire Engines being unavailable is not connected to our industrial action as we are not in strike action, we are in Action Short Of Strike for the time being meaning everyone is at work as per their contract. ... Every day for a few years, it’s a daily occurrence as reported by this page that Fire Stations are constantly closed, 2nd Fire Appliance constantly off the run, all due to years of cuts by Surrey County Council and the lack of challenge to these cuts spineless Senior Leadership Team. Whilst the job above was under way, a member of the public called and requested the attendance of an Animal Rescue Unit to assist rescuing a horse, to be lifted by our Animal Rescue Unimog. Due to several Fire Engines being off the run today and the only Specialist Animal Rescue Personnel being in attendance at the house fire in Esher, the Vet had no choice but to put the horse down!!!!! This is a direct result of the devastating cuts we have faced and they want to CUT a further SEVEN Fire Engines at night, including the Animal Rescue Station! The decision to continue with the proposed CUTS voted through by Surrey County Councillors and put forwards by our Senior Dictatorship Team must be reversed!!!! #savesurreyseven LBC Surrey Live Surrey Mirror horseandhound.co.uk

24.01.2022 Dont worry everyone, as our Chief Fire Officer said on a news interview and I quote nothing bad will happen The dangerous plan put together by the Senior Dictatorship Team includes the removal of SEVEN Fire Engines at night, is called MAKING SURREY SAFER. Just let that sink in. #savesurreyseven

24.01.2022 https://www.getsurrey.co.uk//surrey-firefighters-could-str

23.01.2022 A very busy couple of days for the brigade as a whole; all with pumps off the run left right and centre. Both Wholetime & On Call. What was it Chief? Oh yeah, Nothing Bad Will Happen #savesurreyseven... https://www.getsurrey.co.uk//surrey-tornado-pictures-chert

23.01.2022 Another house Fire, at night? Surreys Senior CENSORSHIP Team seem to think these do not happen. This photo must be photo shopped. A very busy night shift for Surrey Fire & Rescue, this is just one of the incidents.. Painshill backed up Guildford to this particular house fire (BOTH STATIONS TO BE CUT AT NIGHT) ... To our control staff orchestrating the response & to the crews involved, well done for your efforts throughout last nights shift, its a shame Surreys Senior Censorship Team and most of Surrey County Councillors do not value the work ethic under huge pressure & mental well being of our control staff, the lives and safety of the Firefighters that run towards danger & the lives and safety of the public we serve and they supposedly represent. Surrey Live LBC https://www.facebook.com/864668977048044/posts/1357112557803681?sfns=mo

23.01.2022 https://www.getsurrey.co.uk//surrey-fire-rescue-regularly-

23.01.2022 Another fire.......at night. Would you believe it. As can be seen by the picture below, the Officer in charge requests relief crews and is answered with NO, WE HAVE VERY LIMITED COVER OPERATIONALLY AT THIS TIME Remove SEVEN pumps from this scenario and what do we have left? ... The proposals put forward by our Senior Leadership Team and accepted by the clueless Councillors that voted in favour of it are dangerous and unsustainable. #SaveSurreySeven

22.01.2022 https://www.fbu.org.uk//number-fire-fatalities-rise-surrey

21.01.2022 SURREY FIRE & RESCUE SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM. You are a disgrace to the Fire & Rescue Service, disliked & despised amongst the public and the majority of the work force. You should hang your heads in shame at the proposals you have forced through with your factually incorrect information, the same goes for the recent leaver of Surreys Leadership Team, who has amazingly landed herself a job as a Chief Fire Officer in Sussex. Come to Surrey, help plan the destruction of this se...rvice, putting the lives of Firefighters and members of the public in jeopardy, then leave smelling of roses. All of your actions & your ridiculous proposals are dangerous and unachievable, & deep down, behind the garbage you spout and try and convince people, you know it. The public do not believe this propaganda, One Team, No Borders You leave us absolutely speechless with your efforts to mug off the public and your staff. Have you read every single comment on your twitter page? All negative, as were he 13050 signatures that signed the petition, ignored by Surrey County Councils, party line voting politicians. For last nights shift, Fordbridge Fire Station was CLOSED. At just after 8pm, there was a house fire in Ashford & a young woman inside the building. As Fordbridge was closed AGAIN, Feltham from LONDON FIRE BRIGADE had to send appliances, on arrival carried out Life Saving Actions and fight the Fire as they were FIRST in attendance on SURREYS ground. Egham arrived AFTER Londons pumps. Our Comrades in London stand with us in solidarity, against the current situation in Surrey, but are equally as frustrated and dismayed at the situation. Denise Turner Stewart will no doubt lie AGAIN about this closure, as she did when convincing Surrey County Councillors to vote through the dangerous proposals put forwards by Surreys Leadership Team, the proposal also being factually incorrect. We will be posting every single councillors name that voted through these proposals in the coming days following listening to and digesting the absolute rubbish proposed by the SLT & the LIES put forward by Denise Turner-Stewart. . SHAME ON YOU!!! We are currently voting for Industrial Action, please bare in mind, this is to save and protect YOUR Fire Stations, WE NEED YOU. #savesurreyseven Surrey Live LBC BBC News BBC Surrey Daily Conservatives The Labour Party Liberal Democrats Surrey Mirror Save the UK Fire Service Firefighters United Woking Fire Station

21.01.2022 Crews from Fordbridge, Egham, Painshill & LFB Feltham attended. Tragic news. https://www.getsurrey.co.uk//stanwell-crash-lorry-car-live

21.01.2022 Hi, Surrey Fire & Rescue Senior Leadership Team, the ones disciplining Fire Brigades Union Members and officials for taking part in LEGAL industrial action signed off by your own solicitors. We are not scared of your bullying and pathetic attempt at intimidating us, youre the ones that are scared, youre the ones that are afraid of the members within your service that are exercising their rights as trade union members that VOTED 94% in favour of this action, youre the ones... that are clutching at straws because every brigade that surrounds us has refused to offer cover to mask your incompetence during this period.......and to think some of you are FBU members and challenge everything we stand for by supporting these cuts to our service and pushing the order of discipline down the chain to your managers to deal with, putting them, who are in this with us in a difficult and terrible position. WE STAND STRONG. WE STAND IN UNITY. WE STAND AGAINST YOU. BRING IT. LBC Lbc Radio Firefighters United Surrey Live

20.01.2022 https://www.dailystar.co.uk//breaking-brentford-travelodge

19.01.2022 Very sad news from across the pond. R.I.P https://www.abc.net.au//two-volunteer-firefighre/11816732

18.01.2022 Oh, how they lie. LBC Surrey Fire and Rescue Service Surrey Live Save Our Services in Surrey

17.01.2022 A disgrace to the constituents they supposedly represent. LBC Surrey Live

17.01.2022 Yet again, Surrey Fire & Rescue Services Senior Leadership Team have attempted to GAG its staff. Our control staff have now been told that when reporting incidents on the services twitter page, they are not allowed to mention which Fire Appliances are in attendance. I wonder why this is? Its a blatant attempt to remove more information from the public as to which appliances are where at what times, only its not classed as lying as they are just not telling you.... Our Chief Fire Officer states, & I quote NOTHING BAD WILL HAPPEN end quote, following the CUTS to Surrey Fire & Rescue Service. Removing Fire Engines at night is not a cut. Its transformation Councillor Denise Turner Stewart stated in her plea to the full council on the 24th of September that no Fire Stations have been closed and that this very Facebook page has been dishonest about the brand new Fire Station being closed since it opened. Tuesday 8th October at 10:00, there is a full Council meeting, with the petition with over 13000 signatures is being officially heard and debated on. A 30 minute debate is set in the agenda. The fight to #savesurreyseven continues. Lbc Radio LBC Surrey Mirror Spelthorne Conservatives The Labour Party Liberal Democrats

17.01.2022 Please watch. https://www.facebook.com/393147247543766/posts/1157718514419965?vh=e&d=n&sfns=mo

16.01.2022 Thankyou FBU! Surrey Fire Brigades Union (FBU) have launched a trade dispute with their fire and rescue service, calling for management to end unsafe practices in their fire and rescue service. Concerned firefighters and residents protested outside Surrey County Hall on Tuesday 24th September. The trade dispute raises a number of concerns including:...Continue reading

16.01.2022 Don’t worry everyone, as our Chief Fire Officer said on a news interview and I quote nothing bad will happen The dangerous plan put together by the Senior Dictatorship Team includes the removal of SEVEN Fire Engines at night, is called MAKING SURREY SAFER. Just let that sink in. #savesurreyseven

14.01.2022 The Senior Mismanagement Team of Surrey Fire & Rescue are haemorrhaging staff left right and centre to surrounding Fire Brigades due to staff not putting up with their dangerous and ridiculous plans. On top of this, they plan to cut 70 firefighters!! Surrey Fire & Rescue will portray through their absolute joke of a twitter page that they are recruiting, that they have the public interest at heart. Reality is, that since the start of the recruitment campaign last year, they ...have not even replaced the number of firefighters that have retired, transferred out of this crock or the leavers that have had enough of the deceit, the mismanagement, the lies and the shocking reductions in firefighter safety imposed by the proposals of the joke of a management team of this brigade. To all my comrades, get out whilst you still can and VOTE YES for Action Short Of Strike as this must be stopped. To those that consider joining Surrey Fire and Rescue as a new recruit. Look elsewhere. Shift changes, station closures, if there is an angle you can get shafted, this current management team will find it. Surrey Live

14.01.2022 Power goes to two poles, to those who've got the money and those who've got the people 1pm. Surrey County Council Offices. Kingston. See you there.... https://www.fbu.org.uk//surrey-firefighters-launch-trade-d

13.01.2022 **PLEASE READ AND SHARE** A busy day for the service. A well developed roof fire in Esher attended by 8 Fire Engines plus the Aerial Ladder Platform from Leatherhead, all whilst several Fire Engines around the county being off the run, due to lack of crews. The Fire Engines being unavailable is not connected to our industrial action as we are not in strike action, we are in Action Short Of Strike for the time being meaning everyone is at work as per their contract. ... Every day for a few years, its a daily occurrence as reported by this page that Fire Stations are constantly closed, 2nd Fire Appliance constantly off the run, all due to years of cuts by Surrey County Council and the lack of challenge to these cuts spineless Senior Leadership Team. Whilst the job above was under way, a member of the public called and requested the attendance of an Animal Rescue Unit to assist rescuing a horse, to be lifted by our Animal Rescue Unimog. Due to several Fire Engines being off the run today and the only Specialist Animal Rescue Personnel being in attendance at the house fire in Esher, the Vet had no choice but to put the horse down!!!!! This is a direct result of the devastating cuts we have faced and they want to CUT a further SEVEN Fire Engines at night, including the Animal Rescue Station! The decision to continue with the proposed CUTS voted through by Surrey County Councillors and put forwards by our Senior Dictatorship Team must be reversed!!!! #savesurreyseven LBC Surrey Live Surrey Mirror horseandhound.co.uk

13.01.2022 Goodbye Spelthorne It is with a very heavy heart that I leave Surrey Fire and Rescue Service today having served all my time as a firefighter in Spelthorne. When I was posted to Sunbury I had no idea where it was, but I have grown to love the place the people and all the terrific crews I have worked with on the front line....Continue reading

11.01.2022 Our thoughts are with the Family, Friends and colleagues of the 4 Police Officers mindlessly murdered in Paris today. The thin blue line gets a little longer. R.I.P

11.01.2022 Fordbridge Red Watch Boat crew, rescuing two young men from the Weir in Walton yesterday with on bank assistance from Walton, Esher & Chertsey Fire crews. Walton On- Call Crew had to be sent due to no Wholetime crew available, the remaining Firefighters sent around the county to prop up other stations. Walton is crewed full time during the day & Retained at nights and weekends. Surrey Police & South East Coast ambulance were also in attendance and assisted with the incident.... Both of these guys were very, VERY lucky. #SaveSurreySeven Photo Credit: Chris Howe

11.01.2022 Stormzy, we couldnt of put it better ourselves. Love to you, one of very few celebrities with the nuts to speak out. Oi Jacob Rees Mogg you need to resign youre an actual piece of sh*t I beg everyone watch this - MP Jacob Rees Mogg in a nutshell saying Grenfell Victims should of had the common sense to escape. I cant believe the cheek f**king hell these politicians are actual aliens

11.01.2022 Twenty pumps including support from Lancashire are dealing with a major blaze in the centre of Bolton at Bradshaw gate. The call was made at 20,:50hrs today

09.01.2022 Most importantly, we would like to congratulate ALL of our new recruits on completing their initial basic training courses and we welcome you to Surrey Fire & Rescue Service and look forwards to you coming out to stations. Well done. But............would you look at that. The absolute front. Councillor Denise Turner Stewart pictured below ready to hand out the Silver Axe to one of our fantastic new recruits. Little do they know, she is one of the main reasons YOUR safety i...s in jeopardy as well as the public WE serve. She presented the CUTS to the council, voted through these cuts and convinced the rest of the councillors that party line voted on the decision to make the cuts, having absolutely zero understanding of the impact of this devastating decision for Surreys residents. Lets bare in mind, this is the same person that denied Staines/Sunbury........then Fordbridge ever being closed publicly. In which we proved to be lies. The plan written by the Senior Dictatorship Team and supported and presented by Denise Turner Stewart, removing SEVEN Fire Engines at night, Woking, Guildford, Banstead, Spelthorne, Egham, Camberley, Painshill, is called MAKING SURREY SAFER. Just let that sink in. MAKING. SURREY. SAFER. #savesurreyseven LBC Radio Jackie Surrey Live

09.01.2022 Fires dont happen at night..... 40 fire crews tackling flames 'crawling up cladding' at student flats http://news.sky.com//fire-at-bolton-student-flats-is-crawl

08.01.2022 **MULTIPLE CREWS IN ATTENDANCE** A major fire at the Hungry Horse in Chertsey is currently being dealt with by several fire engines. #savesurreyseven... Surrey Live

07.01.2022 Watch Commander Paul Murphy pictured after receiving his 20 year long service medal with Jay, our Fire Brigades Union Secretary and fellow Fordbridge Firefighter. Before joining Surrey Fire & Rescue 20 years ago, Paul served 5 years in Kent Fire & Rescue. Paul is a fantastic manager, well respected both as an operational Firefighter within the service and an advocate for the values of the Fire Brigades Union, brilliant at the job, knowing it inside out. He will be sorely missed by us all. Question is......where is going. #onwardsandupwards

07.01.2022 ***ACTION SHORT OF STRIKE*** To give the community clarity over what will happen to fire cover from tomorrow (24th December) at Fordbridge Fire Station. We will still be available as we are now. For now, we are only withdrawing goodwill that we give to the fire service for free. This dispute is because of the constant attacks from Senior management and Surrey County Council, year upon year of cuts, the removal of SEVEN Fire Engines at night, constantly undermining and underva...luing their staff. We have had enough, and we will not be bullied and intimidated by an Inept, divide and conquer, toxic management culture. As long as we're here, we will serve you all to the best of our abilities. Merry Xmas all. #savesurreyseven #dontbelievethelies

07.01.2022 Thanks Paul, Save Our Surrey Services & all at Unison. https://www.facebook.com/1799553460266168/posts/2558986207656219/

05.01.2022 Very early hours of this morning, White Watch Fordbridge were tipped out to a Persons Reported House Fire in Sunbury. Thankfully both Fire Engines were on the run, they were then backed up by Egham, Esher & X2 LFB Fire Engines. 10 Breathing Apparatus wearers used. Lets wind forwards to when the Council & Senior Management CUT 7 Fire engines, straight away that would see 2 of the first fire engines in attendance at this incident GONE, creating a big delay in Rescue Operations... and Firefighting. The difference between life, or death. Well done to the neighbours for your efforts. Commendable actions. But please remember what our chief said on his radio interview and I quote NOTHING BAD WILL HAPPEN Surrey Live

05.01.2022 The absolute joke, that is Surrey Fire & Rescue Senior Leadership Team, have managed to convince the councillors that the proposals are a positive move. You should be absolutely ashamed. SHAME ON YOU, YOU WILL HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.... PAINSHILL CUT GUILDFORD CUT CAMBERLEY CUT SPELTHORNE CUT WOKING CUT BANSTEAD CUT EGHAM CUT Its all out war, rally the troops. LBC Surrey Live Save the UK Fire Service

04.01.2022 The actions, decisions and opinions of this current government are disgusting. We take our hats off to Rocky for speaking out, especially as in Surrey we arent allowed to as we would face instant discipline. To ALL Firefighters regardless of rank in London Fire Brigade affected by the disgrace that is this current shambles of a government, that live every day with the events of that night and face ridicule and scapegoats attempts, WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALL OF YOU.... https://www.facebook.com/526575395/posts/10157674678320396?sfns=mo

04.01.2022 #SaveSurreySeven https://www.getsurrey.co.uk//live-m25-closed-heathrow-traf

03.01.2022 More sad news from over the pond. Another firefighter lost to these devastating fires. R.I.P... https://amp.theguardian.com//one-firefighter-killed-austra

02.01.2022 VOTE YES TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION AGAINST THE DANGEROUS ACTIONS OF THIS CORRUPT, LYING MANAGEMENT TEAM AND THE PARTY LINE VOTING, CLUELESS COUNCILLORS THAT VOTED THE CUTS THROUGH. Get Surrey Surrey Live LBC FireFighters United #savesurreyseven

01.01.2022 We will never forget that the Mayor of London axed 65million, 10 fire stations, 14 fire engines and 552 firefighters from his fire service. When a consultation found 94% of those asked were against the cuts, he ignored it. He over-ruled opposition on the London Assembly, and when asked how he could possibly still call this reduction in fire cover an "improvement" he told his questioner to "get stuffed. That Mayor is now Prime Minister. And flammable cladding is still on more than 2,000 tower blocks, hospitals, schools and homes, nationwide.