Are any of the apologists for the firefighters refusing to attend fires going to support them if anyone they know dies in a fire or an excruciating death trapped in the mangled wreckage of a road accident because of the totaly inadequate dads army cover by the army trying to tackle situations the brigade are meant to be there to deal with..Yes they are entitled to earn a decent wage,but they are also moraly obligated regardless of money to do everything within their powers to save lives in an emergency....Yes by all means mount pickets outside fire stations,march on parliament...mount public campaigns to draw attention to their worries over their income,but for Gods sake do not allow people,babies,old people,young people,anybody to roast or suffocate inside burning buildings or bleed to death by the roadside because of money...some things are too important in this life..They do their case no good at all if they continue this policy of withdrawing their labour and waiting for an inevitable tragedy "tragedies" to happen that should have been prevented...their conscencies will suffer,and their good names will suffer for ever...The fire brigade is not a service that can ever be denied..