Response times to serious fires in Epsom are set to double, after councillors approved plans to remove one of the borough’s fire engines yesterday.
At a meeting of Surrey County Council’s cabinet, councillors gave the green light to proposals to relocate a fire engine from Epsom to Burgh Heath by 2014 - a move which would nearly double the average time it would take for firefighters to start treating a serious fire in the town.
Under the plans, a new fire station will be created at Burgh Heath and another in Salfords, south of Redhill.
A document stating the reasons for the approval said it would "mitigate the impact of changes at Horley as a result of the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Authority’s decision to withdraw their fire engine" and improve the fire service provision and fire engine response coverage across Surrey - the latter of which has been "measured through modelling analysis and performance data".
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