THE Government's plan to replace fire control centres across the country with regional centres, like the one planned for Taunton, will cost lives, the Fire Brigades Union has warned.
FBU president Ruth Winters, speaking at a union members meeting on Sunday, said: "The response to incidents and terrorist attacks will become less efficient and will cost lives.
"In order to spend £1billion on an untested new technology project, the Government proposes to lose 380 or more jobs in control centres.
"No technology, even if it were tried and trusted, can replace a human being at the end of the telephone in an emergency."
For the full story, see this week's Somerset County Gazette.
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