Lincoln Run for All event

Run for All is a charity event where youngsters taking part in the runs are encouraged to raise a small amount of money for a local cause or for the Jane Tomlinson Appeal. Proceeds from the event will also be supporting St Andrew’s Children’s Hospice, Grimsby. RRT arrived in two teams at the Yarborough Leisure […]

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PBCC RRT assist at Firefighters Fundraising Walk in Portsmouth

Fifteen exhausted firefighters and one mannequin collapsed at the base of the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth! They had just walked over twelve miles (not the mannequin – more on that later) to raise money for The Fire Fighters Charity and Football for Cancer. Firefighters from several stations over Portsmouth organised the sponsored walk to raise […]

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Andover RRT Attend Thatch Blaze in Longparish

On Wednesday 1st April at 5:45pm the Andover Rapid relief Team were called by Hampshire fire and rescue. Eighty firefighters were battling a blaze at a thatched cottage in Longparish – some had been working for nearly five hours in intense conditions without a bite to eat – would the RRT please attend? Of course! […]

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RRT assist Major Fire in Horndean

Spring officially began on the 20th March this year – it’s now time to get outside, sweep up the dead leaves, maybe even cut the grass and start doing work in the garden again.  At least, that was what one resident of Horndean thought earlier this week. On the 1st April (and no this wasn’t […]

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Middlesbrough Pre-planned Emergency Evacuation Exercise

The emergency planning unit for the North East approached the Rapid Relief Team during 2014 asking for help and services on a pre-planned Emergency Evacuation Exercise, this was following the extensive work and labour carried out by RRT during and after the floods in 2013 which spread across many parts of England forcing hundreds of […]

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SUSSEX BY THE SEA – sung at the South Downs

“We were expecting a nice lunch, but then got a free lunch, which greatly helps the funds”, said Dorothy Lazenby, organiser of 4SIGHT’s social club at Clayton Parish Hall. 4SIGHT is a registered charity (no.1075447) with a mission which includes the provision of high quality educational, social and leisure services to blind and partially sighted […]

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RRT support at Norfolk Fire

Two members of Walpole’s staff were at the North Pickenham depot of Walpole Transport, and were coming off their morning coffee break when the fire was spotted. The warehouse manager attempted to put the fire out, but the blaze was too big to manage. The fire brigade were called, and first to respond were the crew […]

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RRT Attends Two Major Arson Attacks in Oxfordshire

At 3:10AM on Thursday 15th January 2015 an arsonist created the largest incident that the Oxfordshire fire crews had seen for many years. Revenging a decade long planning battle with the local council, the arsonist torched his house, set fire to a neighbouring thatched cottage (whose occupant had complained about the planning application) and then […]

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Sponsored Hike in the Breacon Beacons

A group of 15 PBCC members have chosen to raise funds for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice in Surrey. Our group chooses different charities and we tend to run a similar challenge every year. BECAUSE EVERY DAY IS PRECIOUS Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice is the only adult Hospice caring for terminally ill people and their families across the […]

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