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.