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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know about being a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Pets rescued from house fire in Lowestoft I was quite looking forward to an evening in last night. After four nights out on the trot, the thought of slobbing out in front of the box seemed most appealing. So, having tweeted […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Mini Tornado Wreaks Havoc in Lowestoft Talk about omens… The sky turning black, the wind howling around the bungalow, the rain lashing down, hailstones rattling on the windows, a plague of locusts, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It was bad but […]
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READ MOREDEAR ALL, I am a newly published local author, Philip Copland, and have written a book about the Battle of Britain. The book has recently been published in the USA…by Publish America and should be available in the U.K. at the end of November [certainly Amazon should have it by then]. An East Anglian and […]
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READ MOREIn 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere home for the elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of his care home by dressing up as the grim reeper and peering through the residents’ lounge window whilst holding a scythe.
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Fury as retained crews miss out on jobs Just thought you might like to read an article from our local newspaper. It’s all about retained firefighters applying for jobs as wholetime firefighters in Suffolk. Only 13 out of 47 retained firefighters that […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk End of an era… At 10am this morning Lowestoft South Fire Station became operational.It will seem strange for me not to see all the pumps and specials waiting behind the closed appliance bay doors as I pass the fire station. The existing […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Fire at Birds Eye, Lowestoft I had just managed to last the morning at work and was contemplating food and the afternoon when my plans were hurriedly altered by the strident calling of my alerter. click images to enlarge Traffic, for once, […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk UK Fire and Rescue Services use new driver training technique… Rumour has it that, in an effort to cut costs, greenhouse gases and appeal to the younger computer-literate generation, UK Fire Services are to trial a new technique in driver training. No […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Emergency, which service? Well, that’s a first… There I was, wandering through Lowestoft town centre, heading in the general direction of the bank when a familiar smell assailed my nostrils. No, it wasn’t the smell of alcohol on someones breath or the […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Could you be a Retained Firefighter? It can be a big commitment but it’s the sort of job that just gets under your skin – it becomes a part of you, a way of life. Generally there are two types of cover […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk RTC, Worlingham, Beccles – children injured You just couldn’t make this up… School children get knocked down outside a church where the funeral is taking place of a driver killed in an RTC. It’s crazy, yet it happened this afternoon in the […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Four shouts in one day – just like the old days! The last car had literally just left the fire station after having a make over at our charity car wash when the bells went and my alerter followed suit. Car on […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk Thirteen in the bed and the little one said… Roll over, roll over… For the next two weeks the Brigade Training School at Normanshurst is playing host to a retained firefighter recruits course. And its great to see that the course has […]
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stories / Then & Now / valley lad memories September 11, 2009
READ MOREAccording to recent reports people in our country are living longer. The medical profession as well as many other groups are quick to take the credit for this although current health reports suggest it might not be sustainable. It also has to be remembered that those now in their seventieth and eightieth years were weaned […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk House fire, Dene Road, Lowestoft Do you know, there is a direct correlation between me having food in front of me and my alerter going off… It’s true. This morning, with the weather feeling particularly Autumnal, I wandered round to Tesco’s and […]
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READ MOREAlerter All you ever wanted to know aboutbeing a retained FireFighter in Suffolk So my alerter does work then! Today, after 10 days without one, we get a shout… Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t wish harm, distress or anything else on the good folks of Lowestoft (well some I might…) but I’m like […]
