Chief Fire Officer Huw Jakeway

Huw Jakeway at bay

In order for you to put faces to names to individuals involved in this dispute, I will be running a series of articles with images and histories of those mentioned in the press and at meetings.

So let us start at the top of the Fire Service in Wales, with Chief Fire Officer Huw Jakeway, who was appointed to his current postion in 2012 having had a variety of jobs within the service, which he joined in 1990.

Huw has an MSc in Public Management, which is supposed to build knowledge, skills and confidence for careers in the public service - if not confidence in the general public at large.

For background information, the plans to close Blaina Fire Station were presented on Monday September 23 with the fire authority voting unanimously to accept the proposals recommended in stage one of the fire cover review.  To my knowledge there was no consultation with the staff of Blaina Fire Station or with local council authorities.  If I can get a copy of the proposals then I will publish them and I would also like to know the names and qualifications of those people who wrote the proposals.

Introducing Save Blaina Fire Station

I will be as brief as possible as there is much work to be done and I am hoping that you, the people of Blaina and surrounding areas will assist in that work.

This site has been created to gather and provide information to the relevant Fire Authorities and those that have influence with the relevant authorities, that will make them reconsider closing down Blaina Fire Station and to look at other means of making savings without endangering lives, making people unemployed and destroying a vital part of Blaina community.

The site will be posting information on just who the main players are on both sides, details on the history of Blaina Fire Station, those who have worked for it, those who work for it now and those who have died for it, as well as those people defending it now.