London Remembers

Plaque

Soho Fire Station - Clermont

Soho Fire Station

Photograph by: London Remembers

Soho Fire Station - Clermont

Photograph by: London Remembers

Inscription

Save or die. It meant something for you.
Firemen of Clermont-FD, France.

In a 2012 European Trade Union Institute publication concerning firefighters' working conditions we found: "The motto "save or die trying" is overused: it is not a risk culture that is needed, but a safety culture. Even in a sector like firefighting, accidents do not have to happen."

We've guessed (maybe wrongly) that this plaque was erected to commemorate a visit from the Clermont firemen, following the King's Cross fire.

Site: Soho Fire Station (3 memorials)

W1, Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho Fire Station, 126

These plaques are all inside and normally inaccessible but, for the 2018 Pride in London Soho fire station held an open day and we took our opportunity.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Soho Fire Station - Clermont

Subjects commemorated i

King's Cross fire

Event, Engineering, Tragedy

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Soho Fire Station - Clermont

Created by i

Firemen of Clermont-Ferrand, France

Group, Armed Forces

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Soho Fire Station - Clermont

Also at this site i

Soho Fire Station - King's Cross fire

Soho Fire Station - King's Cross fire

From Emergency we know that this plaque was erected on or before 19 July 2017.

Soho Fire Station - Wilson and Mitchell

Soho Fire Station - Wilson and Mitchell

We will remember them, Station Officer - L. W. G. Wilson Auxiliary Freman - F...

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