FOLLOWING up on Mr Rundle's excellent letter in the October 15 edition of Wirral Globe, I would like to add that in my long-standing membership of the consumer movement one thing has always struck me: the reason and motivation for providing a service decide the whole way it is structured and run.
Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service seems to have lost the plot and forgotten why it was set up in the first place.
Its primary duty is to fight fires and save lives – oddly, it is not to save money at any price.
Mr Rundle referred to maps. I live in Greasby and have to go over to West Kirby quite often by car.
There are six different ways I can go, not one of them free of quite steep hills and / or schools.
If this scheme goes through in the teeth of citizens' opposition I urge the people of the north-west part of Wirral to make sure never to have a fire when the school day is starting or ending.
There is still the matter of cost but from quite a different angle.
How exactly is money to be saved by scrapping West Kirby and Upton fire stations only to annihilate Greasby library and Greasby community centre and put up a massive fire station in their stead?
I have seen no costings for this manic scheme which would probably be far more expensive altogether than keeping two existing fully functional fire stations.
Evelyn Campbell Smith, Greasby
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