Cleveland Fire Brigade

👨🚒 Last week #TeamCFBs Barry was out and about in central Middlesbrough talking to residents about wheelie bin safety alongside our partner agencies. 🔥 Follow Barry’s top tips and help us reduce wheelie bin fires in your area by: 🏠 Storing bins/rubbish securely & away from property 🗑️ Putting your wheelie bins out only on the day of collection and bringing them in as soon as possible 🚬 Always extinguishing cigarettes before binning them

Well done to Tom Daley and Noah Williams on winning silver medals for #TeamGB this morning (29/07). 👏 🥇 With the Olympics in full swing and our top safety tips, we hope everyone can become a champion this summer! Go for gold by: 🔥 Swapping blazing BBQs for a perfect picnic 🏊 Only entering the water if a lifeguard is present 👀 Keep looking while you’re cooking 🥤Always taking your rubbish home and not starting fires 🔑 Leaving the car keys at home if you’re drinking

❔ Sunday pop quiz! 🔥 🚒👩🚒 Who can tell us what these bits of equipment, kept on our fire engines are used for? Comment your answer below! 👇

🥪It’s National Picnic Month! Remember to swap your burnt sausages for crisps, sausage rolls, fruit salad and sarnies if you’re out and about this weekend! #BeAChampion this summer, pack a picnic and help us prevent fires and look after our wildlife. 🔥

📚 School may be out, but the fires aren’t! 🔥 👀 Please remain vigilant over the school holidays and if you have any information about who is responsible for deliberate fires in your area please tell us anonymously through FireStoppers. Visit https://lnkd.in/dui5UFj 🚒 We take deliberate fire setting very seriously and work closely with our partners to keep our communities safe.

🥇 Champions take picnics! 🥪🍓☀️🍰 You can’t have a picnic without a… finish the sentence and let us know in the comments! For us it’s a pork pie! 🚒🔥 Remember to swap your BBQ for a picnic! BBQs are a leading cause of accidental fires in the summer.

🐕 It’s Buddy’s turn to give some paw-esome escape tips for pets during a fire: 🚪 Always keep your dog’s lead near the front door so it can be easily grabbed in the event of an evacuation 🚨 Practice emergency drills with your pets, the more you do it the more your pet may recognise the drill in a real-life scenario and follow the escape route with your family 🐹 Leave crated and caged pets near the entrance of your home so firefighters have a better chance of finding and rescuing them

👏 “All the crews should be applauded, and I offer my most humble thanks and appreciation for their help, skill, understanding and compassion." 🙏 The kind words a resident wrote on our website after their property flooded and #TeamCFB attended, if you would like to commend the team visit: https://lnkd.in/eZyWfbNa

👨🚒 "It's kind of like your second family, you've got people who are happy to help when you need it." 🚒 Firefighter Gav joined #TeamCFB four years ago and is part of Green Watch at Hartlepool! 💻 If you're interested in joining #TeamCFB you can check out our current vacancies at: https://lnkd.in/eUdiEXAD

🌊🚒Fire engines across Cleveland are ‘going blue’ this Thursday to raise awareness of World Drowning Prevention Day. To show our support and promote crucial water safety messages, Cleveland Fire Brigade will turn on their fire engines’ blue lights for two minutes at 9:30am on Thursday 25th July. To read more visit 👉 https://lnkd.in/ea-uADug