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FIREFIGHTERS vowed to never forget the service’s worst ever peacetime disaster as they gathered yesterday to mark their trade union’s centenary.
On March 28 1960, an explosion at a Glasgow whisky warehouse killed 14 firefighters and five members of the Glasgow Salvage Corps who were tackling a blaze at the scene.
The warehouse, in Cheapside Street near the city centre, contained over a million gallons of whisky and rum.
The Fire Brigades Union’s Scottish division chose to mark the union’s centenary on the 58th anniversary of the disaster.
Firefighters said safety improvements over the past 100 years had been the fruit of the union’s campaigning efforts.
“The FBU has been at the sharp end of every single improvement in the service over the years,” FBU executive council member Chris McGlone told the Star.
FBU general secretary Matt Wrack laid a wreath in the Glasgow Necropolis, where the men who died are buried.
James Boyle, whose firefighter father Christopher died in the explosion, told the Star that it was important for the FBU and others to keep the memory alive.
