A fire which spread to six homes was made worse due to budget cuts, a union has said.
The impact of a huge fire that spread through six homes was made worse by budget cuts, a union has said.
At the time of the incident, both of East Kilbride's appliances were unavailable as they were at training near Edinburgh. With no stand-by pump available from East Kilbride, appliances arrived at the scene later, giving the fire more time to take hold and spread to neighbouring properties., said:"This fire at East Kilbride shows the appalling impact of the budget cuts being imposed on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
"Thankfully, no one was injured in this incident but delays such as this are going to get more common and the risk to life will increase if the year-on-year cuts to services that see fire appliances withdrawn and firefighter numbers cut, continue.