Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service

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Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service
Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service
Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service area
Coverage
Area Wiltshire
Size 3476 square kilometres
Population 635,300 (est 2006)
Operations
HQ Devizes, Wiltshire
Stations 24
Co-responder 11 stations
Chief Fire Officer Simon Routh-Jones
Deputy Chief Fire Officer {{{DCFO}}}
Website Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service
Fire authority Wiltshire and Swindon Fire Authority

Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service is the county-wide, statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. It is administered by a joint authority of 13 members, 9 appointed by Wiltshire Council and 4 by Swindon Borough Council, called the Wiltshire and Swindon Fire Authority (Chairman, Brigadier Robert Hall). The members serve for an annual term.[1]

The service is also one of the few to have trained in cave and quarry rescue, having to cover the underground area of Corsham. The fire and rescue service's headquarters is located at Manor House, Potterne, Devizes, Wiltshire.

As part of the FiReControl project, Wiltshire Fire and Rescue's control room was due to switch over to the regional control centre in Taunton. Originally scheduled to take place in September 2010, the cutover date was revised to March 2012,[2] however the plan was scrapped in December 2010.[3]

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[edit] Fire stations

Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service has a total of 24 fire stations (three wholetime, three day-crewed and eighteen retained stations).

A full list of fire stations and front-line appliances can be found here

[edit] Wholetime

[edit] Day-crewed / retained

[edit] Retained

[edit] Co-responder stations

Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service works in partnership with the Great Western Ambulance Service, under the Wiltshire Emergency Services project, to provide emergency medical cover to area of Wiltshire. These are areas that have been identified as having a greater need for ambulance cover. The aim of a co-responder team is to preserve life until the arrival of either a Rapid Response Vehicle (RRV) or an ambulance. Co-responder vehicles are equipped with oxygen and automatic external defibrillation (AED) equipment. 11 of Wiltshire fire stations operating as co-responders:

  • Malmesbury
  • Cricklade
  • Wootton Bassett
  • Ramsbury
  • Pewsey
  • Ludgershall
  • Tisbury
  • Mere
  • Melksham
  • Westbury
  • Bradford on Avon

[edit] Other Facilities

[edit] Wiltshire Emergency Services

Main article: Wiltshire Emergency Services

Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service is a member of the Wiltshire Emergency Services project, a collaboration of emergency services in Wiltshire. The project has seen the construction of the WES (Wiltshire Emergency Services) building at Wiltshire Police Headqaurters and the relocation of all three emergency services control centres into that one emergency control centre(Wiltshire Emergency Services building) where information is shared instantly between the three services in Wiltshire. The project has overseen the sharing of station at Bradford-on-Avon and Mere in Wiltshire, and also the training of Fire and Rescue crews to use defibrillators on occasions when the Wiltshire ambulance service is busy in Wiltshire.


[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Combined Fire Authority. "About Us". Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service. http://www.wiltsfire.gov.uk/About_Us/meetings/Combined_Fire_Authority/combined_fire_authority.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-28. 
  2. ^ http://www.swfirecontrol.co.uk/whatisfirecontrol.asp
  3. ^ "Control room scrapping 'will help Devon and Somerset". BBC News. 20 December 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12043791. Retrieved 21 December 2010. 

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