Fire cover in Deeside and Rhyl is currently under serious threat of being downgraded. 

North Wales Fire Service's Senior Leadership Team are proposing to reduce the staffing protocol from Wholetime 24/7, to a Day Crewing model, in order to release already used staff, to crew stations in Porthmadog, Corwen and Dolgellau. 

What this means in reality, is that the response times of a Fire appliance from Deeside & Rhyl for 14 hours of the day, will increase from 90 seconds, to around 9-10 minutes, effectively making it a part-time station. This means a potential for fires to develop further, and threats to life to increase exponentially.  

North Wales Fire Brigade Union have developed alternative options, that enable the service to alleviate its crewing issues in other parts of the Service, but without downgrading Fire cover in the Deeside and Rhyl areas, where it is still desperately needed. 

Please sign and share our petition, to show your support and concern for these plans to cut YOUR frontline services. 

Thank you.