In our regular On This Week feature we look back at what was making the news on August 4-10, 1990… Norfolk Fire Service came close to being overwhelmed by the number of calls received during heatwave conditions over three days, it has been revealed. A total of 175 calls flooded into fire service headquarters during one day – at one point reaching a call a minute – and the total for the three days was 203. The situation became so critical that the neighbouring counties of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire were put on standby to send appliances into Norfolk. A fire spokesman said that the number of fie…
