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We can't spend £50k replacing fire station doors
8:27pm Thursday 15th May 2008
RE: The letter two weeks ago from a 13-year-old girl complaining about the look of the fire station in High Wycombe, and asking for it to be repainted red.
IN ANSWER to Javeria Ali's letter about High Wycombe Fire Station in the Bucks Free Press, we're sorry about the appliance bay doors!
Our experience has been that new paint rapidly weathers back to the current faded colour, and unfortunately we can't justify spending the estimated £50,000 it would cost to replace them.
Over the next three years, our funding from the Government is being cut in real terms, and we face significant difficulties in maintaining the high standards of emergency response and safety advice that residents of Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes expect and deserve.
In such circumstances, we feel it would be wrong to divert what little funding we have from maintaining critical systems towards non-essential works.
The good news is that Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service supports Wycombe District Council's desire to redevelop the town centre, and we are in detailed discussions with its officers over possible relocation of the fire station.
Our hope is that we will be able to move forward quickly with Wycombe District Council in providing a new fire station for High Wycombe.
Should this not be possible, we would naturally review our current position of limiting funding to essential maintenance of the station, which has itself cost more than £150,000 in the last financial year.
We would be happy to invite Javeria and other concerned residents to visit the station and discuss their concerns with us face to face, always provided of course that they are prepared to accept a return visit from our firefighters for our free home safety check!
Roy Harold, Area Manager, Property, Procurement , & Transport, Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
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Local, Bucks says...
9:28am Fri 16 May 08
Idiotic. Who cares what they look like as long as it does not hinder their ability to do their jobs.
acjy1985, high wycombe says...
12:24pm Fri 16 May 08
Town Cryer, Wycombe says...
7:21pm Fri 16 May 08
whats Wycombe coming to that we cant give doors a lick of paint.
A jobbing painter would do job for £2000 inc Hammerite paint
Pierre, HW says...
5:28pm Sat 17 May 08
Gail Robinson, says...
10:12am Sun 18 May 08
Because, as I said before, my Dad was Station Officer in Wycombe (I was extremely proud of that).
he would have definitely agreed (of course) about the difference between the cost etc. of the doors and saving lives. so thanks to whoever posted the reaction to the original post.
The Fire Brigade live in a different world to us (they are used to saving lives etc. etc.)
What a wondeful life we would live in if the ordinary folk would have respect for life, like the fire brigade, police force and ambulance service.
It makes me wonder why they bother?
Marmite, HW says...
9:34am Wed 21 May 08
Lo_Wycombe, Bowerdean Rd says...
4:40pm Thu 22 May 08
How about a 4 pack of strong lager for the person who paints the most?
Pearl Lewis, says...
4:05pm Mon 2 Jun 08
Pierre wrote:Is this something new I was under the impression that Bucks New Uni were not going to expand beyond the fly over as this was not a viable option where would you divert the traffic to if this was an option.
The Fire Station is going to be demolished as part of the Bucks New Uni expansion, so why worry about the faded doors now?
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Ivor, says...
9:09pm Thu 15 May 08
The doors don't need REPLACING they just need REPAINTING!
For £100 you could buy enough paint to do all the doors on the fire station. As for the paint rapidly weathering modern paint lasts at least 5 years.
As for the offer of a "free home safety check" I've checked your fire station doors and they have FAILED - Get them painted and stop making excuses!