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To: Avon Fire & Rescue Authority

Don't Dig Up Bristol's Firefighter Memorial!

Reverse plans to dig up the memorial to fallen firefighters from its current location in Bristol Centre Centre and move it to a remote location near Portishead.

Why is this important?

Firefighters in Avon are raging at plans to dig up a memorial to fallen firefighters in Bristol City Centre and move it to a remote location near Portishead. The memorial statue of a firefighter gazing up at the sky is currently located next to Temple Back fire station in the city centre. Under the controversial new plans, the beloved memorial will be dug up and shifted to a new ‘Police and Fire’ headquarters site where hardly anyone will be able to see it.

Fire Brigades Union rep for Avon, Gary Spindler, said:

“The statue is an important memorial for remembering firefighters who have sacrificed their lives in the line of duty. It’s current location in the city centre keeps their memory in the public eye, where it should be. Every year on Firefighters’ Memorial Day (May 4th) firefighters and other fire and rescue service personnel congregate around the statue as part of this high profile event – this is when the value of its location is really appreciated and valued, by the public as well as firefighters.

To move it out to a remote location in Portishead would deprive the public of this important memorial and frankly be an insult to our fallen colleagues. The planned new site is a high security location, which will make access even harder. We are demanding that these plans are reconsidered urgently, and that the statue remains at its proper home at Temple Back fire station.”

Bristol

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