Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service

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Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service logo.svg
Operational area
CountryEngland
County Lancashire
Agency overview [1]
Employees+1,500
Chief Fire Officer Jon Charters
Facilities and equipment
Stations 40 (including USAR at Chorley)
Website
www.lancsfirerescue.org.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service is the county-wide, statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the English non-metropolitan county of Lancashire and the separate boroughs of Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen.

Contents

The service is made up of six area commands as follows: Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western, Central and Pennine. Within these areas there are 18 wholetime, 17 retained stations and four day crewed stations providing Lancashire with 24-hour fire cover.

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Clockwise from top left: Some of the service's fire stations in Fleetwood, Blackpool, Burnley, Ormskirk and Preston
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Water Rescue Ladder
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Aerial appliance

Performance

Every fire and rescue service in England and Wales is periodically subjected to a statutory inspection by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). The inspections investigate how well the service performs in each of three areas. On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows:

HMICFRS Inspection Lancashire
AreaRating 2018/19 [2] Rating 2021/22 [3] Description
EffectivenessGoodGoodHow effective is the fire and rescue service at keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks?
EfficiencyGoodGoodHow efficient is the fire and rescue service at keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks?
PeopleGoodGoodHow well does the fire and rescue service look after its people?

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome to the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service". Archived from the original on 22 August 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2006.
  2. ↑ "Lancashire 2018/19". Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). 20 December 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  3. ↑ "Lancashire 2021/22". Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2023.



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