Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service

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Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service (OFRS)
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service logo.svg
Operational area
CountryEngland
County Oxfordshire
Agency overview
Chief Fire Officer Rob MacDougal
Facilities and equipment
Stations 25
Engines 35
Platforms 1
Rescues 1
Website
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The Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is the fire service serving the county of Oxfordshire, England. [1] It is predominantly an on-call fire service, although also has whole-time support.

Contents

Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters is in Kidlington, Oxford, Oxfordshire. This is also the location of the fire service workshops. Oxfordshires control room is now based at Reading, as part of the Thames Valley Fire Control Centre, in partnership with Royal Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue services. Kidlington's control room now acts as a backup/secondary control in the event of a failure at Reading.

The chief fire officer is Rob MacDougall.

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, Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows:

HMICFRS Inspection Oxfordshire
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?

Fire stations

Goring Fire Station, Cleeve - geograph.org.uk - 24590.jpg
Wantage fire station - geograph.org.uk - 473173.jpg
Didcot fire station - geograph.org.uk - 473176.jpg
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Clockwise from top left: Some of the service's fire stations in Goring-on-Thames, Wantage, Thame and Didcot

The Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service currently operates out of 25 fire stations, three of which are crewed on a wholetime 24-hour basis with retained (on-call) back-up, three stations are day-crewed and retained, and 19 are crewed solely by retained on-call firefighters.

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References

  1. online@oxfordshire.gov.uk, Oxfordshire County Council, 01865 792422. "Fire and Rescue Service". oxfordshire.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  2. "Oxfordshire 2018/19". Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). 20 June 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  3. "Oxfordshire 2021/22". Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2023.