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MANEA MATTERS
MANEA MATTERS
URGENT NEED FOR

MORE ON-CALL

FIREFIGHTERS

Are you looking for a new challenge, call outs including a traffic collision near
interested in being part of a close-knit the A142 and helping the police to recover
team and helping your community? a young girl with hypothermia from a
remote area of the village.
If we don’t support our
station now, we will lose it. The crew meet for training on Thursday
nights from 7:00-9:00pm and each
member is asked to commit to being
Last year we learned that our community available for a minimum of 49 hours a
fire station is under threat of closure with week. Times are flexible to suit you and
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue looking being available simply means you are
to close stations in Manea, Sutton and within 5 minutes of the station and can
Kimbolton. attend a shout if called. For example, if
you work from home most of the week
you could fit the criteria without changing
your routine.

If you work from home most of
the week you could fit the criteria
without changing your routine.

If you are interested in becoming an
on-call fire fighter more information,
including rates of pay, can be found online
by scanning the QR code below.

To save our station we need more on-call
crew to improve its availability. If we don’t
support our station now, we will lose it.
We currently have six on-call firefighters
with another one on the way, but this only
gives us half of our target number and if For more information on Manea Fire
we lose the station response times in our Station please contact our Watch
village will increase to around 20 minutes. Commander, Rhys Fenn on:
During January our station attended four
Rhys.fenn@cambsfire.gov.uk.

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