Fire crews in Lancashire amp up services to deal with affects of climate change

They've recruited 2 new all-terrain 'Hagglund' vehicles and making use of a new 'burn' team

Firefighters tackling a blaze on Lancashire's fells
Author: Jamie WilliamsonPublished 9th Mar 2022

Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service has launched its new 'Climate Change Operational Response Plan.'

The service has been demonstrating its two new Hagglund vehicles, which are all terrain vehicles that can be used at wildfire and flooding incidents.

The service’s 'burn team' also carried out a demonstration, showing how they've changed tactics in recent years to extinguish wildfires and there will be one of service’s boats which are deployed during wide area flooding.

The plan has been launched after the service's most recent Strategic Assessment of Risk identified the increasing impacts and consequences of climate change in terms of both prevalence and duration of large-scale flooding and wildfire events in the county.

Over the last three years, the service has attended 683 flooding incidents and 325 wildfires. The aim of this plan is to reduce the threat to the communities in Lancashire, improve firefighter safety and reduce the costs and impact to the service, partners and communities.

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