Broken fire truck grounds Little Cayman flights

| 10/01/2023 | 10 Comments
Cayman News Service
Edward Bodden Airfield on Little Cayman (file photo)

(CNS): Cayman Airways Limited (CAL) cancelled its flights to and from Little Cayman on Monday and Tuesday morning because the Cayman Islands Fire Service (CIFS) truck on that island was out of service. However, it has since been fixed, so Tuesday afternoon’s Express flights will operate as scheduled in and out of Little Cayman, the airline stated.

CAL said it worked with CIFS to help get the truck back up and running by transporting the necessary truck parts from Grand Cayman via scheduled flights to Cayman Brac Tuesday morning, where CIFS was able to send the parts by boat to Little Cayman.

While the fire truck was inoperable, affected passengers were safely shuttled from Little Cayman to Cayman Brac by boat, where some were flown to Grand Cayman via an extra Express flight that was added to accommodate the need for additional seats.


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  1. Anonymous says:

    It’s called maintaining your equipment 🤡🤡🤡

  2. Anonymous says:

    Fire service is undermanned in the Sister Islands. I wonder what the actual numbers required to properly run both stations is and the actual number of firemen.

    You also need to look at the leadership support from Grand Cayman on this issue from both the Fire Service and Ministry.

    This isn’t any excuse for the fire truck being broke down in Little Cayman – but does make you wonder why?

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  3. Anonymous says:

    High end luxury destination?

    • Anonymous says:

      Not Little, please. Stick with laid back lodges. – Not that that has anything to do with the need to maintain the fire truck, etc., over there.

  4. Anonymous says:

    Government need to start taxing real estate companies for infrastructure up keep Cayman these overnight millionaire real estate companies and agents need to PAY simply as that developers next ! Talking pure foolishness about the Rent going up when it’s them doing it to increase their already over inflated income shame shame PACT please act now to make them pay their fair share .

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  5. Anonymous says:

    Why no reserve fire truck?

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  6. Anonymous says:

    Laughable but they want to implement a bus system?

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  7. Anonymous says:

    That truck should still be under warranty and definitely shouldn’t be breaking down already as it’s brand new and barely driven.

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