The Anonymous Widower

The Closed Kingsland Fire Station

I walked past the closed Kingsland Fire Station a couple of days ago.

The Closed Kingsland Fire Station

I’m not going to enter into the rights and wrongs of the closure, but I once had a dinner with a senior fire officer in Suffolk. Many of the things he suggested to cut fire deaths from many years of experience, have still not been generally implemented.

One example of something he wanted was battery-less smoke alarms in all buildings. Twenty years later that still isn’t the norm.

As the fire station and several others have now been closed for a few days, I’m surprised we haven’t seen a few stories about how wrong the decision was.

February 2, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | World | Fire