Over 200 staff from across South Wales Fire and Rescue Service have volunteered to support their communities and blue light colleagues by offering support including driving ambulances over the past six months of the pandemic. Since last summer 33 firefighters from across the Service have completed the specialist training programme and have been actively supporting our communities and 999 family as part of the Covid-19 response. This deployment requires personnel to complete a joint course facilitated by the Welsh Ambulance…

South Wales Fire Service giving a talk to countryside organisations at Ruabon Mountain Firefighters from South Wales Fire Service spoke at a fire awareness day, organised by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), at Ruabon Mountain on August 1st. The 7,000-acre heather moorland, which is rich in grouse and waders including curlew and golden plover, has a strong collaboration between the graziers, gamekeepers, landowner and shoot captain. Craig Hope, from South Wales Fire Service, believes that reducing the risk…