Just out of curiousity, has anyone ever been saved from an aircraft fire (resulting from the scenario painted in the consultation document where "a Cessna 152 lands and hits a Piper PA38") by airport firecrew?
According to a presentation (which I attended) by a Govt Minister from the DfT, in London in November 2006, the DfT did research on this and found the answer to be zero. Specifically, no lives were actually saved by airport fire crew.
I don't recall the time period over which the data was collected but from vague recollection and the general context it was several decades.
I am not for or against airport fire crew; just reporting the above.
What I am against is mandatory ATC for any public instrument approach. This keeps GA utility value in the Middle Ages by making GPS approaches all but useless even if we had them. Currently, nearly every airport that has ATC also has an IAP.