TWO remote communities are warning that plans to disband their local fire units will risk endangering lives, despite the service receiving only four emergency calls over the past five years.
TWO remote communities are warning that plans to disband their local fire units will risk endangering lives, despite the service receiving only four emergency calls over the past five years.
united FRONT: Residents of Knoydart and Eigg are fighting fire board plans to disband their local units. Picture: Duncan Soar/Alamy
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David Ross Highland Correspondent
Locals claim members of the public will be tempted to risk their own lives to tackle blazes.
It comes as Highlands and Islands Fire Board prepares to consider a plan to disband the local community units in Knoydart and on Eigg which the fire chief says would cost more than £400,000 to retain.
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