Defence written question – answered at on 13 September 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many fire appliances the armed forces own, broken down by age; and how many could be used to provide emergency fire cover for the general population in the event of a strike by firefighters.
The Ministry of Defence owns a total number of 216 fire appliances. Of these 79 are Major Foam Airfield Crash Vehicles (MFV) and 82 are Rapid Intervention Airfield Crash Vehicles (RTV). There are also 55 Domestic Vehicles which are used to tackle fires in buildings and other parts of the Defence Estate and are similar to those operated by local authority fire and rescue services.
The ages of the vehicles are as follows:
Age by years | |||||||||||||||
Vehicle type | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 22 | Total |
MFV | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 79 |
RIV | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82 |
Domestic | 1 | 19 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 55 |
All fire appliances owned by the Ministry of Defence are there to support armed forces operational activity and could not be assigned to provide emergency cover in the event of a strike by firefighters whether on a national or local basis.
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Owen Pearman
Posted on 2 Oct 2006 2:56 pm (Report this annotation)
In that case what would you do in the event of a fire-fighters strike?
I admire your honesty - this is a quality sadly lacking in politics currently, however I feel you must now adsress the issue exposed by the question you have been asked.
What would you do in the event of a fire-fighter's strike?