IF the bosses within Merseyside Fire & Rescue Authority took their responsibilities seriously they would have been aware of the potential danger attached to the proposed fire station at Saughall Massie.
It is the unsuitability of the site people objected to, not just the prospect of it being built on Wirral's green belt.
The lanes leading to West Kirby and its environs are narrow winding lanes with acute continuous 'blind' bends.
They have six-foot hedges on either side which impede vision.
At rush-hour, traffic is often bumper to bumper.
Local farmers use the lanes to transport farm equipment, tractors pulling trailers etc.
Livestock is moved within the lanes.
Sirs, you cannot hurry a herd of cattle but you will create mayhem if you try.
A fire engine hurtling along any one of those lanes answering a 999 call would lead to carnage sooner or later.
The proposed site was directly next door to a complex of small bungalows.
Many of the occupants are frail, many are retired.
The quality of their lives would have been severely compromised in the event of fire sirens going off day and night.
Further, to say the proposal would save £864,000 or pay for 20 full-time fire fighters is disingenuous.
Should the two fire stations at Upton and West Kirby close there will be redundancies and how much would the new fires station cost?
A lot more than maintaining the status quo, I should imagine.
Mrs Stephanie Miller,
Upton
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