Unmanned fire stations ?!

[limbicsystem]

I caught part of a maths-type TV programme years back (presumably Open University, but I forget. I'm rubbish with maths and can only imagine the reason I saw as much of it as I did is that I'm equally as bad with remote control location), where they were saying there needs to be a fire station within so many minutes of every property in such and such an area and then showed the formulae and whatnot to work out where the stations would be best situated.

I'm afraid in my naivety at the time I presumed this was actually how things worked in real life and not just as a maths exercise. I guess in truth money talks louder than maths.

I think that was an episode of Numb3rs...

[BlindLemonAde]

We've got a part-time fire station in our village in Kent.

When I were't lad in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (1960's), long before pagers were invented (we had to walk down the street and queue up for the telelphone) the Fire Brigade sounded an air-raid siren, then Mr Higginbottom up the road got in his Cortina and drove down the hill to the fire station. Seemed to work...

[bertie]

is the OP not going to comment now that it had been fairly comprehensively shown that unmanned (retained) fire stations are neither uncommon, or new

[Emperor Fabulous]

"The OP" ? You can refer to me by name you know. I thought I did comment, in post 12.

Or were you hoping for some kind of public humiliation, a 'throwing myself at the mercy of the forum' for the unforgivable crime of not knowing about retained firefighters ?

You're a funny bugger Bert. I've always been civil to you, sometimes even complimentary, yet you've always acted like I've just shit on your sofa. Fair enough, you don't have to be civil if you don't want to, it's not compulsory, but it's common courtesy and if you can't manage that then there's little point in engaging with you.

[Viz]

I never noticed posts were numbered before - ta

[bertie]

I thought I did comment, in post 12.

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missed that one, sorry my bad. Mistakes can happen.............rare for me I realise, but hey ho.

[Viz]

aw :-)