LANCASTER's MP Hilton Dawson has met with Home Office Minister George Howarth to tell him that proposals to cut the retained fire service in Lancaster defy reason and common sense.
Mr Dawson is concerned that the Standards of Fire Cover report claimed that there has been a four per cent reduction in the area's population while council predictions expects the district's population to increase by 14,600 by the year 2006.
"As we all know it is extremely congested with traffic and is a terribly difficult place to drive a car let alone a fire engine trying to respond to an emergency," said Hilton.
"I am asking George Howarth to dismiss the proposal to get rid of our retained fire engine, I just think that the whole idea defies reason and common sense."
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