📢 Parents and carers ❗

PLEASE help your children to understand the dangers of open water, and ensure they stay away from it.

We've got lots of water safety advice on our website: wmfs.link/2GWFPjr

#BeWaterAware

A specialist water rescue team from Technical Rescue is in Nottinghamshire, supporting Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after flooding in the county.

A six-strong team arrived on Sunday morning to deliver humanitarian aid to properties cut off by flood water.

Read more: wmfs.link/41O9jrf

Pleased to be supporting West Midlands Fire Service football team ⚽️ this afternoon. A great 4-2 win in a really competitive FIRESPORTUK FOOTBALL tournament🏆 match versus Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service #Proud 👏🏾

🌃💧 Be very careful of any winter walks near water. Avoid waterside paths in the dark to stay safe. Especially if you're out walking pets.

#SafeWalking #WinterTips #WinterWaterSafety

🎉 Did you see our look back at 2023? Take a look 👇 👀

From our Chief Fire Officer Wayne Brown, and all of us at West Midlands Fire Service, we wish our communities a very happy, and safe, Christmas 🎅 🎄 ☃️

Our crews will be on duty keeping you and the West Midlands safe, as always 🙏 🎄

Grace Moore’s beloved dad, Andrew, who was a firefighter with West Midlands Fire & Rescue Service, died by suicide in February 2020.

Here, she shares how she & her family have coped with their grief & why they’re supporting our crisis line: ow.ly/vH4g50QlE52 West Midlands Fire Service

🎉 It's been quite the year!

Deployments at home and abroad, days of celebration and diversity, and remembering colleagues who are no longer with us.

As we wind down 2023, here's to our staff, our volunteers, our partners and our communities 👏

Take a look 👇

🎉 Keep going! 🎉

A huge well done from WMFS and Wayne Brown to Antarctic Fire Angels.

They are skiing from West Antarctica to the South Pole and are 29 days into their expedition.

Find out more information about their fundraising here: wmfs.link/48uFK0h

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Sunday's Carol Service at St Martin in the Bull Ring was a festive delight! 🎄✨ Thanks to WMFS Pipe Band for the outdoor magic, Band of the WMFS, our choir, Education Impact Academy Trust pupils, and our staff for heartwarming readings.

#CarolService #FestiveSpirit

Remembering the Babbs Mill boys, one year on. 🕯️
WMFS officers, and the West Midlands community, pay tribute to the four lives lost on the ice.

Join us in reflecting on their memory and heed the safety message: #ThinkTwiceStayOffIce .

Full story: wmfs.link/3Tkeqx7

Great afternoon with West Midlands Fire Service staff, Dawn Ward CBE DL DL and guests at our Christmas Carol Service at St Martin. Ladywood Fire Station greeting guests, exquisite Band of the WMFS and a heart warming nativity from students and teachers Queensbury School & Queensbury New Horizons Mayfield School Birmingham WS Active Society Hive College 👏🏾

Thanks, Band of the WMFS, for getting the festivities well and truly started this afternoon.

Great to see @InTheBullRing packed for West Midlands Fire Service's carol service.

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Tomorrow night 6.30pm crews will be at the arena shopping park collecting donations new toys with our #fillafireengine . Massive thank you to BBC CWR and Birmingham City FC for the support.

🏆🎉 Big news! For the 2nd year running, West Midlands Fire Service is the UK's Most Inclusive Employer in The Inclusive Top 50 Uk Employers! A testament to our commitment to #Diversity , #Inclusion , and #Equality .

Read more: wmfs.link/3GrfKqB

#WeAreWMFS #InclusiveWorkplace 🚒🌈

It's official! We are...

... The number 1 most inclusive employer on the The Inclusive Top 50 Uk Employers for the 2nd year in a row! 🥇🏆

#WeAreWMFS #WeAreProud

So proud of West Midlands Fire Service Staffordshire and West Midlands Fire Control staff. For the 2nd year running voted the UK’s most Inclusive Fire Service and the no.1 most Inclusive employer Inclusive Awards / Companies 2023. Recognition like this does not happen by accident. Great people doing great things #IA23 #WeAreWMFS

GET READY AND STAND BY! It's time to reveal the highest-ranking organisation, the MOST INCLUSIVE EMPLOYER, ranking NUMBER 1 on The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List 2023/24 is... West Midlands Fire Service! CONGRATULATIONS! #IA23 #IT50 #InclusiveTop50 #InclusiveCompanies

All set for the 2023 Inclusive Awards / Companies with West Midlands Fire Service colleagues. Proud to be voted the 2022 UK’s no.1 most inclusive employer. #IA23

Proud to be nominated as a finalist at the Multicultural Business & Community Champion Awards tonight. Looking forward to a great evening representing West Midlands Fire Service