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Biker Down

Biker Down is a free scene safety and first aid course given to individuals and groups organised by our Road Casualty Reduction Team.

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Commercial training

We offer a range of professionally-led training courses for businesses and commercial premises. We can cover fire marshal training, fire risk assessments, use of fire extinguishers and more.

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Education downloads area

All of the materials used by teachers for our various programmes are available to download here.

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Every Choice Counts

The ‘Every Choice Counts’ road safety presentation, aimed at young people, is designed to raise awareness and create a better understanding of being a responsible driver or passenger when travelling in a vehicle.

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Explosives licence

An explosives licence is a document that allows the holder to store and/or manufacture explosives. You can apply for a licence with us if it's for a premises in the West Midlands.

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Fire Cadets

Fire Cadets is a National uniformed cadet group. West Midlands Fire Service have 8 branches across the West Midlands area.

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Fire engineering

Our Fire Engineering team use their skills to assist in building, planning and using legislation to protect people, property and the environment from the effects of fire.

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Fire hydrants

Our hydrant team are responsible for ensuring the hydrants in the West Midlands are operating correctly. If they aren't you need to let us know.

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Fire Risk Assessment guidance

Fire Risk Assessments are a legal requirement for workplaces. We can’t complete a fire risk assessment for you, but we can provide advice and guidance.

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Fire safety

Fire Safety in business or commercial settings is an important part of our work in keeping the communities of the West Midlands safe. We can offer support and guidance to your business through these services.

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Fire safety resources for businesses

Our fire safety resources for businesses page has safety information and guidance to help businesses keep their premises, customers and staff safe from fire and other risks.

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Incident report

We all hope the worst doesn’t happen, but sometimes when it does, an insurance company, landlord or other agency may require an incident report (sometimes called a Fire Report).

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Operation Hercules

Operation Hercules is a West Midlands Police led initiative, working with partners such as West Midlands Fire Service and local councils to address car cruising and street racing.

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Petroleum certificates

Petroleum certificates ensure that anyone dispensing petrol or storing it in significant amounts does so with a high level of regard for public safety and protection of the environment.

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Residential Fire Safety

Residential fire safety gives guidance around requirements for fire safety measures in multi-occupancy residential premises, high-rise blocks or buildings over 11 metres in height.

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Safe and Strong

Safe and Strong visits by our firefighters help businesses and other organisations keep their staff, residents, visitors and buildings safe from fire.

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Safe and Well

Safe and Well visits are an important part of our prevention activity. They enable us to advise and educate on safety at home, with a particular focus on our most vulnerable residents.

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Safeside

Experiential learning centre and interactive safety village for children, young people and adults

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Schools and education

Educating our communities' young people is an important part of what we do as a service.

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Technical Rescue

Technical Rescue deals with incidents that require additional equipment and training outside the remit of standard firefighting, this can include water rescue, rope rescue, response to terrorist threats and more.

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Youth services

Every day we carry out a range of activities with young people to ensure safer, stronger and healthier communities.

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Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy for West Midlands Fire Service

This is the Cookie Policy for West Midlands Fire Service, accessible from www.wmfs.net.

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use them and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of our site's functionality.

For more general information on cookies, please read "What Are Cookies".

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that if you have no concerns about our use of cookies that you accept them, however, you have the right to decline but it may affect your access to our site, or how it displays or functions.

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More Information

Hopefully, this policy makes our use of cookies clear and how you can find out more information about them. To speak to us about our use of cookies or to get further information please contact us:

Email: datamanager@wmfs.net
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