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Welcome to the history page on the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service website.
This page will feature photos and snippetts relating to Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Fire Service.
For a “brief” history of the UK Fire Service, follow the links on the right.
Please note that the items on this page will come and go, they will not be archived, so remember to check back on a regular basis!

August 1939

RAF plane crash, University Road, Leicester.

Three PDF files scanned from newspaper cuttings of the time detailing this remarkable incident.
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