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Can't help there, I'm afraid. I guess the union and management would probably give you two very different answers. I just know from personal experience that it does happen and I guess any reduction in numbers will inevitably lead to it happening more often. The massive, swingeing budget cuts...

No, there are only five fire engines. The high volume pump isn't used for firefighting and the aerial ladder platform is only ever used in conjunction with a fire engine and doesn't have any pumping capability. Might look like semantics, but there really are only five standard fire engines.

A house fire attracts an attendance of two or three fire engines, which will provide the correct number of personnel to set up a safe system of work. One of those five city engines seems destined to go, presumably from either Brighton or Hove. If you live in an area currently served by...

The five fire engines are the two pumps (1 extended rescue & 1 water tender) at Preston circus, two at Hove (again, 1 extended rescue & 1 water tender) and one at Roedean (extended rescue). These are the basic pumping appliances that would respond to house fires, RTCs, chemical spills, animal...