A planned 48-hour strike by Hertfordshire firefighters has been called off following negotiations.

The strike, over cuts to services, was due to start on Thursday evening and end on Saturday.

But on Thursday afternoon Hertfordshire County Council said the planned strike had been suspended by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU).

The council said there had been "positive discussions" with the local branch of the FBU.

Councillor David Lloyd said: "Now we can move forward and reach an agreement.

"I'm delighted that our many hours of talks have paid off and I hope we can continue in a constructive and positive way.

"The most important thing now is to put this behind us and work together to ensure that Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service continues to provide first class cover for the county."

The FBU is opposing cuts to the service including station closures which it claims involve job losses.

About time the FBU was reclassified as a terrorist organisation, and the leaders such as Andy Gilchrist sent to Guantanamo bay!

NO NO NO Leave our "Water Faries" alone!

The pro-*test*-('") wasabout "cuts to services" which means less funding which means poorer response times and ultimatley more fatalitys. Dick no matter what way you try sugar coat your propaganda leave the ff's alone they have their job we have ours. We may have differnt ways of doing things but aslong as it stops pain death crime etc does it really matter? Just leave it your getting childish at this stage

Went to a call at just gone midnight last night where they was a fire reported in a garden.

There's a road in Tooting that looks like its been taken from a country village and plonked into the middle of slags Ville.

No trouble in the road, ever, really. I think the trees and clean houses scare the scrotes off.

Anyway we turn up get let in the house by a very yummy mummy, walk through to the garden which is nearly 250' long The house must be a tardis 'cos it don't look that big from outside.

Where we see her kids and about 20 others camping out around a fire. Four mooosive fire extinguishers dotted around. A well planned and safe camp fire come BBQ.

Elderly neighbour, who reported the fire is also there, (misunderstanding she thought they were away in the Algarve).

We leave, we can't cancel LFB 'cos they won't? As we leave LFB arrive, I go to speak to the top KNOB. who waves his hand at me and walks past, tries to go down the side gate. Big commotion as the home owner ( have I mentioned she was a yummy mummy?) doesn't want him going though as it's been seen by us and there is no problems.

He starts to try and throw his weight around and push past her, at that point she opens the gate and he is met by 2 horses wearing Rottwieller costumes. These dogs are massive, they could pull a cart for youngs and then drink the load on the back.

Not barking, or growling just staring at this, now "frozen on the spot twat in a soppy white welders hat". He then calls me over and asks me to assist. The owner said something in German (now I'm getting the trouser twitch), the dogs sat down at our feet.

Husband of yummy mummy works for the German Gov't, personally knows most of our cabinet and loves the old bill. His dad was a cooper in Germany.
She will be contacting his "friends" regarding this incident.

She then went inside got all of us, including the LFB, some bbq chicken and pepsi's. I sat out side playing with the dogs, in the side alley, whilst trying to eye her up and not make it obvious. A cross between Claudia Schiffer and Selma hayek. Her not the dogs. The firemen are off the truck and stood with us talking, top KNOB is sitting on the truck eating alone. Strange thing is one of the firemen had huge boobs and was very pretty? Does that make me gay?

Another case of I'm a fireman stand to the side. Yet earlier that evening at about 7:30 I waved at LFB, (always do, even though I've only hand ONE female wave back in 11 years), they waved back. I checked my mirror. No one behind me, they must've waved at me

Did I mention the home owner was a gorgeous Yummy mummy?

Does fancing the fireman with the huge boobs and blonde hair and big blue eyes make me gay?

Is they any point in this post?

Should I really be drinking bear for breakfast after 13 hours on duty and 7 hours sleep in 2 days?

Jim, your crazy but make me laugh. I must admit the lads in white helmets run round like blue arsed flys while the yellow helmeted lads (and lassies) are down to earth people. Much like the difference between inspectors and constables. Thing is they have their job we have ours. Never heard a fire fighter bad mouth us.

Morale of the story leave them alone to do their job and they'll leave us to do ours

Dick is old enough and bald enough to stick up for himself, but I will say this.

Childish is jumping out in front of a Green Goddess on a call to a fire with persons trapped causing that old sh1te fire truck to lock up and go sideways on the West Hill in London SW18.

A fireman did that, whilst on his picket line. The other firemen hid him in the station house afterwards and denied it happened. Unfortunately for him and them the traffic cars escorting had their provida on and they were on video doing it.

Now that is childish, as was the egg throwing at all 3 fire stations on my division.

They want pay in line with the police, best they work they same conditions then.
That's with regards to their other jobs and responding to collapses in the street, defib calls and the like.

I can't speak for Eire, but over here it would appear to be slightly different.

Maybe the Gov't has helped to drive a wedge between us and the fire service.

At my pursuit I was critisied by a fireman (in fact all but 1) for chasing the car that hit the tree. It was my fault that the sh1te bag who robbed the kid of his car at knife point crashed.

One of them stuck up for me when a firemean siad, "if he were white they wouldn't have noticed him". The firemen who stuck for me was black, and they had some choice words between them.

What I'm saying is firemen are not all the same, but the ones with the big gobs and the chips on their shoulders stand out more.

It's the same in our job, but I've yet to see any coppers I work with playing football in the yard for 8 hours and demand more money for doing it. the next day was less strenuous as they had a bbq.

I can confirm this as I was watching them for the whole 8 whilst sat at my computer on light duties.

Having said that we will be getting paid to play football, eat bbq and get drunk on the tax payers money soon. My team have been awarded a training day for coming 1st in the figures game for 3 years running beating the nearest team by over 200 arrests and being 3 less than every other team on strength.
We have not had one of these days for at least 9 years on our division.

I don't hate firemen, i just couldn't eat a whole one. Except for that one with the big boobs and blue eyes. Does that make me a gay cannibal?

Dont let a few rotten eggs spoil the omlette.

What else can they do but play football when cut backs require them to be in the station to be ready to provide fire cover and not be out doing fire prevention etc. If we had the choice would you play football instead of foot patrol?

See here in Ireland dublin fire brigade do emeregency ambulance cover aswell so playing football is a rare treat even when not rostered on the ambulance fire appliance get sent to medical calls aswell where they can often get there quicker

As for bad mouthing the police, I personally know that fire fighter who got botteled in the above topic and he has nothing but praise for the officers who were on scene inseconds and have gone out of their way to to catch the perp

But as you say there is just a few bad eggs who give everyone a bad name

Anywho this is turning into another HATO issue where I say black others say white can we agree to disagree

How d'ya do fire prevention? Go around spraying people with water.


That's a water fight. I'm not stoopid

I dunno inspeacting hydrants, giving fire safety advice all that other stuff. How do we do crime prevention cuff everyone?

We all have to put up with job cuts, traffic officers for instance in England have been slashed dramatically over the last few years, the police service as a whole puts up and shuts up and takes it on the chin.
ACPO are looking to axe upto 25,000 police over the next few years to replace them with PCSO's, what will we do? just get on with it and make good of a bad lot.

I had a similar experience with a green goddess, got called to a field fire right out in the sticks and took us an absolute age to get there, as we are nearing the fire the trumpton that were on strike were in the road waving banners and taking photos of the goddess.
Surprisingly the fire was a hoax and the call was traced to right where trumpton were standing.
What if a real emergency had come in during that time?
It appears to me they only talk about saving lives when it suits them.

That gentleman is no longer the General Sec of the FBU....he has been replaced by Matt Wrack.

Whoever was daft enough to do that had never had the 'pleasure of driving one !. I learned to drive on a Green Goddess more than 35 years ago and recall that the brakes were cr*p then and the vehicles were much newer then, I dont suppose that they have improved with age

The Hertfordshire dispute is so ironic as the very crews who were praised for their heroic deeds when they were first on scene at Buncefield are facing the chop!

Now there's an idea!!!

If everyone was cuffed together in pairs or even 3's. That way we could pass a law the if one of them commits a crime they all get done for it.


Now with regards to fire prevention and waiting for call on fire cover. Whats stopping them do both?

I drive around looking for scrotes to stop and answer calls when they come in.

Fire prevention advice is done by blokes in cars here.

Crime prevention is done by fat coppers here.