Stuart Brandrick

I could be wrong, but this appears to be a 127 in wheelbase Defender.

WMFS ERF TL UVP 98S with ladders from the former Wolverhampton Leyland Firemaster. The chassis, one of the last ERF*s to be built, was in stock at ERF. WMFS Transport staff led a project to buy the chassis and have the ladders from 9990 DA transferred to it. @WMFSHeritage @WMFS

The ladder set from 9990 DA was subsequently remounted on an ERF 84PS chassis and re-entered service at A1 Birmingham Central and, later, D2 Brierley Hill fire stations. The ERF was registered UVP 98S. A pic of this machine is in a further post. @WMFSHeritage @WMFS

The original Hales St station was opened on 9 October 1902 by the city's Mayor. The 3 bay extension to the building was opened on 27 December 1934. @WMFSHeritage

Coventry's Central Fire Station in Hales Street was originally built with just the three righthand appliance bays. The three lefthand bays were added at a later date. This explains the difference in roof tiles and the dormer roof at the lefthand side. @WMFSHeritage

Florida: 3 firefighters and 12 train passengers were hurt when a train hit a fire truck on a crossing. Local reports say that the driver of the truck, that was responding to a call, waited for one train and then drove around the barrier arms, only to be hit by a high-speed train.

This Paris bus was most definitely 'well alight.'

As a former employee of ERF's fire vehicle subsidiary, ERF (later Cheshire) Fire Engineering Ltd, I must like this post.

Worcester's 12 hour wholetime/12 hour on-call pump mobile to an incident this afternoon. The station's third pump was one of seven on-call second and third pumps recently withdrawn following a 'resource review.'

2/2 In the late 1960's Coventry city brigade was using compressed air breathing apparatus carried on pumping appliances on a day to day basis. Proto BA had a longer duration and was used for larger and more complex BA operations. @WMFSHeritage

Many thanks for this information about the new Bournbrook appliance. Much appreciated. @WestMidsFire

This is the new one-off West Midlands appliance that does not have central ladder gantries to carry a 13.5m ladder.

Amongst the 30 vehicles in the the latest (and largest) UK convoy to Ukraine are pumps from Cheshire, Hereford and Worcester and South Wales; Command Units from London; an ALP from Staffordshire and a curtain-sided truck from Merseyside.