The fire service is at the frontline of the climate crisis – yet with 11,500 frontline staff cut we are simply not equipped for it
Over the last 27 years as a firefighter, I have fought plenty of wildfires and other extreme weather events, and I have seen at first hand how these incidents have become more frequent and extreme. At my former station in Herne Bay, on the north Kent coast, we had specialist equipment for fighting wildfires, and we would travel for miles to tackle flames raging across land.
None of it compared to what I experienced in this week’s heatwave.
