Fire chiefs today reissued a warning about the importance of smoke alarms following two serious house fires in Shropshire in just two days.

Shropshire’s only fire service rescue tender is safe, the county’s top fireman vowed today.

The new £3 million headquarters of Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service was officially opened in Shrewsbury today.

A fire which ripped through a house in Telford was caused by an electric heater, fire investigators said today.

A family of five, including a six-week-old baby, jumped for their lives from an upstairs bedroom as a fire ripped through their home in Telford this morning.

Shropshire saw a 30 per cent rise in the number of arson attacks in the final nine months of 2011, fire chiefs today revealed.

Households will be faced with a simple choice over the future of Shropshire’s fire service – pay a few pence a week more in council tax or lose up to five fire stations.

Firefighters have taken part in a mock emergency exercise at a Shropshire hospital.

Shropshire firefighters have been getting to grips with some beastly casualties – so they know how to react when called to rescue animals for real.

Firefighters had a busy bonfire weekend tackling blazes across Shropshire – but officials said the number was ‘nothing out of the ordinary’ for the time of year.

It is ‘too early to say’ whether cuts being made to the budget of Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service are having an impact on services, the organisation’s deputy chief fire officer has said.

The number of people who have died in house fires in Shropshire this year is the highest since records began.

Shropshire’s fire and rescue chief today pledged to prioritise “public safety” in the face of Government funding cuts.

Firefighters were called after a car crashed into a shop on the high street of a Shropshire town, rupturing the gas supply.

A Shropshire fire chief has warned that further cuts to the service’s budget could put frontline operations at risk.

Fire call-outs have fallen by more than 40 per cent across Shropshire during the last four years, new figures revealed today.

An elderly woman has died in a caravan fire in Shrewsbury.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service bosses today confirmed up to 60 jobs were to go as they announced they had frozen its part of the council tax.

Shropshire’s fire authority has backed a move which will see the formation of a shared control room with Hereford and Worcester fire service.

Shropshire householders are being urged to take action to stop their wheelie bin going up in flames and putting their home at risk from fire.

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service dealt with 70 calls to flooding and burst pipes over the Christmas period.

A multi-million pound scheme to replace 46 fire control centres across England, including the one for the Shropshire service HQ in Shrewsbury, with nine sites is to be scrapped.

Fire service bosses in Shropshire are seeking a summit with government ministers to plead for more cash after being hit with larger-than-expected budget cuts.

A Shropshire father has had an emotional reunion with the man who ran to his aid after a 2,000 gallon fuel tanker crushed his car – and vowed the experience would make them friends for life.

Shropshire’s fire chief has called on government ministers to use a scalpel rather than an axe on the authority’s budget – and warned front-line services across the county could be hit if cuts run deeper than expected.

Sixty Shropshire firefighters, officers and support staff who are due to leave the county’s fire and rescue service over the next four years may not be replaced because of severe budget cuts.

The chief fire officer of Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service today warned costs for a £23 million new regional control centre could spiral out of control – with county taxpayers forced to foot the bill.

More than 1,500 people in Telford were left without electricity – some for nearly three hours – following a power cut.

The owners of a Shropshire hall threatened by a blaze in a nearby outbuilding have praised firefighters who stopped the fire spreading to the main building.

Letter: I do not usually think it appropriate to respond to letters in the Shropshire Star but feel sufficiently moved by the musings of P Johnson (a frequent correspondent on fire and rescue service issues) in your letters page, to do so, especially as they appeared on a day all fire services were mourning the [...]