The annual FirePRO event takes place in Birmingham. The event for fire service communicators takes place in a year with Grenfell Tower and other incidents that will live long in the memory.
by James Morton
Read morean emergency or big changes ahead... fire comms run towards it
Some of the most innovative comms work in the UK today is from fire and rescue people. It's true. It's also a sector that is undergoing radical change. But as change takes shape fire comms are determined to run towards it.
by Leanne Ehren
Read moredealing with the death of a colleague - help is at hand
Kathy Stacey is Head of Corporate Communications at Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service and Bridget Aherne is Head of Corporate Communications and Admin at Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service. They are Chair and Vice Chair of FirePRO and here they tell us about how they developed a toolkit for fire and rescue communicators in case the worst should happen…
by Bridget Aherne and Kathy Stacey
The death of a colleague is unthinkable and the idea that someone we work with could lose their life at work is just awful – but that terrible possibility is one that we in the emergency services must face.
Deaths in the line of duty are, thankfully, rare but each and every single one is a devastating event that has an enormous impact on family, colleagues, organisations and all those connected to the person or people involved.
