Article: New communications network for fire control rooms

Scottish fire brigade control rooms will be revolutionised to cope with terrorism and natural disasters, the minister for community safety pledged in Inverness yesterday.

Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber MSP Fergus Ewing said that a new digital communications network would be introduced to improve communications between all eight fire control rooms and other emergency services, at a cost of pounds100million over the next four to five years.

Staff had faced uncertainty about their jobs after a report prepared for the previous Holyrood administration recommended cutting the control rooms from eight to either one, two or three, stating it would provide better value for money. But in December ...

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