Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service has officially confirmed it wants to return the Ashfield Fire Station to 24-hour cover. Campaigners have been fighting to return the station to a full service since initial cuts were made in 2018.
Since 2018, Ashfield has been operating from 8am until 6pm with 12 full-time firefighters, then relying on on-call firefighters outside of that timeframe. The Leader of Ashfield District Council, Councillor Jason Zadrozny, claimed "lives would be lost" if a full service wasn't returned to the station.
But plans will now be discussed at a meeting of the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Authority on Friday (July 14) to bring a full service back to Ashfield. Twelve extra crew members are needed to bring 24-hour cover back, but the fire service plans are to instead bring them back using the current staffing levels at the station.
