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 [...]

More than 1,000 deliberate fires were started across Shropshire in the last 12 months a rise of seven per cent on last year, new figures showed today.

Motorists faced delays when a car was severely damaged by fire on a main road into Shrewsbury.

The fire service has been called out more than one hundred times to automatic fire alarms at two Shrewsbury hospitals between April 1 last year and March 11 this year, it was revealed today.

Letter: Oh dear how is Shropshire fire service going to manage with the proposed budget cuts?

A Shropshire primary school was evacuated after a fire broke out in the building.

A discarded cigarette is believed to have sparked a blaze which choked a bungalow in Telford with smoke and left two women needing hospital treatment.

A huge blaze has ripped through a rural hotel causing several hundred thousand pounds of damage in a suspected arson attack.

A man escaped serious injury after the 40-tonne crane he was driving overturned and rolled down an embankment in south Shropshire.

Get a smoke alarm and test it weekly – that is the stark message from Shropshire firefighters if householders want to avoid dying from toxic smoke in a fire.