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The equipment and training available to the AFS, though considerably limited, proved to be an essential service to augment the full-time firemen of the Belfast Fire Brigade. During the spring of 1941, Belfast was attacked from the air by the German Luftwaffe. On the night of Easter Tuesday, 1941, around 180 German planes dropped 200 tonnes of ...
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1973: The Belfast Fire Brigade amalgamated with the Northern Ireland Fire Authority to become the Northern Ireland Fire Brigade. from 1973: George Morrison; until 1996: Stephen Walker [8] 1996–2002: John McClelland [9] from 2003: Colin Lammey [10] 2006: Northern Ireland Fire Brigade name changes to, Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service.
Before 1974, all but one of the fire brigades in England and Wales used the term "Fire Brigade", the exception was the City of Salford, which called itself "Fire Department". After 1974, all but two of the new authorities adopted the term "Fire Service", the two exceptions being Avon County and County Cleveland.
Belfast Fire Command – Belfast; Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Depot – Omagh; The Royal Ulster Rifles Depot – Armagh; Territorial Army 188th (Antrim) Independent Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery – Belfast; Antrim Fortress Royal Engineers – Belfast; The Supplementary Reserve. North Irish Horse – Belfast; 3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade ...
The UVF's leadership is based in Belfast and known as the Brigade Staff. It comprises high-ranking officers under a Chief of Staff or Brigadier-General. With a few exceptions, such as Mid-Ulster brigadier Billy Hanna (a native of Lurgan ), the Brigade Staff members have been from the Shankill Road or the neighbouring Woodvale area to the west ...
History of the Belfast Fire Brigade; J. July 2001 Belfast riots; N. New Lodge Six shooting; Northern Ireland Assembly; November 2001 Belfast riots; O. Operation ...
The Official IRA also had a Belfast brigade which was commanded by Republican Billy McMillen, just like the Provisionals it carried a guerrilla campaign against the British forces in Ireland but they called a ceasefire in May 1972, but still carried out a handful of attack in 1973, 1974 & 1975, and they also became involved in a feud with the ...