Wales Online report:

Firefighters have come under attack more than 150 times over the past three year, alarming new statistics have revealed.

The figures – which equate to about one attack every week on average – show the scale of verbal or physical abuse fire crews are subjected to as they carry out their duties.

The details, obtained through a Freedom of Information request to Wales’ three fire services, show that most of the incidents since 2010 involved verbal abuse or objects being thrown at firefighters.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.