MILITARY personnel covering Herefordshire and Worcestershire during the strike say they are carrying out duties expected of them.
But they do not expect to be able to use the fire brigade's own vehicles.
More than 150 RAF personnel from bases across the UK are covering the two counties for the firefighters.
They are in charge of seven Green Goddesses.
Job
"As far as we're concerned we're here to do a job that involves life-saving and fire rescue," said the officer in charge of the Worcester attachment.
"We're just doing our job as normal.
"The Green Goddesses are there to provide the water to any situation and we've got breathing apparatus rescue teams able to go into buildings.
"We've received no information about using the red fire engines."
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