Tayside Fire & Rescue Board

Monday morning saw a regular meeting of Tayside Fire and Rescue Board, this was a little less controversial than recent meetings have been.

As an unwelcome reminder of what the issues which we discuss at Fire Board are all about the meeting opened with the Convener paying tribute to two firefighters who lost their lives recently in Southampton, it was fitting to pay tribute to James Shears and Alan Bannon. It was a timely reminder to members of the board about what we are asking firefighters to do on our behalf.

The meeting received reports on the work of the Fire and Rescue service over the next year. I raised a couple of issues about the number of fire fatalities, which have gone up in the last year. These numbers are small but one fatality is one too many, I am satisfied that we are working to do all that can be done to lower these numbers.