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Fire service bosses accused of making cuts under cover of coronavirus
Fire fighters at the scene after a fire on the top floors of a building on Bradshawgate in Bolto

FIRE & rescue service bosses were accused today of trying to “sneak through brutal cuts under the cover of the coronavirus crisis.”

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said that employers and politicians are rushing through cuts that will reduce firefighter and appliance numbers and create a “major threat to public safety.”

A consultation on sweeping fire & rescue cuts is being launched by employers in the middle of the pandemic crisis, the union said.

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