Nottinghamshire fire service may be forced to miss calls as 'challenging times ahead'
As with most public services across the country today, fire and rescue resources are under extreme pressure. In Nottinghamshire the demands on firefighters became strikingly evident as unprecedented temperatures and a warming climate led to blazes which ripped through the county's farmland and forests.
"I know every person in the organisation will take something from this and if I'm being really honest, they probably need something right now with everything going off around the world and in the country," he said. "I think to be part of something people recognise, they want to be part of something good, so I'm super proud of everyone in the organisation, not just the result.
"We have got to make sure that at least we maintain the great work we are doing now and look for those areas we can target and improve. Maybe we can't improve everywhere, maybe we have got to be a bit more targeted about where we can improve given the resources we have got, because they have reduced quite dramatically over a decade.
"In the National Fire Chiefs' Council we have got a lead around climate change," Mr Parkin says. "What will there be to put fires out in the future? Will water be plentifully available? I look at the discussions around the dry up that is taking place in this country at the moment, will water be readily available for firefighting?
To assist in what was a significant and relatively unprecedented incident local farmers worked to provide assistance by ploughing fields to create fire breaks, Mr Parkin says. Some even provided "big tankers full of water", using tractors and farm vehicles to get over the difficult terrain.
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