HOW MUCH DO THE RSPCA COST THE FIRE SERVICE RESCUING SEAGULLS?

FIRE SERVICES ALL OVER UK SQUANDER PRECIOUS RESOURCES AT THE REQUEST OF THE RSPCA RESCUING SEAGULLS AND PIGEONS.

LIFES IN DANGER, CUTS TO FIRE SERVICES, BUT THE RSPCA CONTINUE TO DRAIN EMERGENCY SERVICES FUNDS 

Heavy cuts to fire-service funding will force up to 1,500 job losses – many of them firefighters – and the closure of stations around the country, shows a survey by
The Independent. Critics warned that lives could be at risk as fire brigades felt the impact of the savage squeeze on public spending.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/firefighters-say-savage-budget-cuts-could-put-lives-in-danger-2231788.html

The RSPCA alerted Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service. Firefighters used an aerial platform ladder to free the bird. The seagull was taken into the care of the RSPCA.
Stefan Rider, incident commander, said: “We sent one fire engine out then because of the location and for safety, we had to call out the aerial platform ladder. The third fire engine is for the remainder of the crew to support the aerial platform ladder.
“We share funding with the RSPCA and have an agreement that they will only call us if they are confident that an animal needs our assistance.”
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/three_fire_engines_sent_to_rescue_trapped_seagull_in_norwich_1_1168789


NORFOLK FIRE SERVICE, MONEY TO BURN? THANKS TO THE RSPCA



NORFOLK FIRE & RESCUE SEND 3 FIRE CREWS TO RESCUE SEAGULL AT THE REQUEST OF RSPCA

£1000 TO RESCUE 1 SEAGULL!

The fire service, which estimates that fire engines cost £300 an hour when on a call, said it only responds to animal rescues if the RSPCA has already carried out an assessment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-16416437

SCOTS firefighters spent an astonishing £1m last year on hundreds of “absurdly wasteful” animal rescues, official figures have revealed

http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2011/09/11/whats-that-lassie-fire-chiefs-spend-1m-a-year-on-pet-rescues/

RSPCA cost Devon and Somerset Fire Brigade £23,000 rescuing seagulls
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Seagull-rescues-cost-service-23-000/story-11795689-Detail/story.html

Fire brigade defends £800 cost of seagull rescue. The RSPCA called Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/brigade-defends-800-cost-seagull-rescue/story-12692546-detail/story.html
FIREFIGHTERS assisted the RSPCA to rescue a seagull in Torquay
http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Seagull-freed-netting/story-11732205-detail/story.html
“A crew from Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service was called to Pendennis Castle on Monday, October 4 at the request of the RSPCA
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/fpfalmouth/8432016.Seagull_rescued_from_chimney_in_Falmouth/
THE RSPCA called the emergency services for assistance after a seagull was found trapped in an East Devon television aerial last night (Sunday).
http://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/news/seagull_trapped_in_tv_aerial_1_951755