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Nearly 50 additional prime movers are being distributed around the country to help the Fire and Rescue Service deal with emergencies. Fire Minister Parmjit Dhanda announced the distribution of additional heavy duty lorries to England’s fire and rescue services for the transportation of specialist equipment to deal with major incidents. Following requests from FRSs the department is locating additional prime movers within the FRS so that it has a greater ability to deploy the specialist kit provided by Communities and Local Government. This specialist equipment is part of the government’s investment of over £200 million in New Dimension programme which includes mass decontamination and urban search and rescue (USAR) kit, and a high volume pumping (HVP) capability. Fire Minister Parmjit Dhanda said: “Locating these vehicles with the FRS across England will help them to respond even more quickly and flexibly to the largest scale incidents. These are the same type of vehicles to those that were used to great effect in the June and July floods to transport high volume pumps to areas of greatest need and more recently they were used to transport USAR equipment to the Warwickshire warehouse fire. This shows the value of the government’s investment of over £200 million in the specialist New Dimension resources.” Welcoming the new additions on behalf of CFOA, Gloucestershire CFO Terry Standing said: “We very much welcome this additional Communities and Local Government funded investment which further reinforces the success of the partnership between central and local government in this important area of our work.”
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