The New South Wales Rural Fire Service is a volunteer-based firefighting agency and statutory body of the Government of New South Wales.
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is the fire and rescue service for London,the capital of the United Kingdom. It was formed by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865,under the leadership of superintendent Eyre Massey Shaw. It has 5,992 staff,including 5,096 operational firefighters and officers based at 102 fire stations.
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) previously known as NSW Fire Brigades (NSWFB),is an agency of the Government of New South Wales,Australia,is responsible for firefighting,rescue and HazMat services in the major cities,metropolitan areas and towns across New South Wales. Fire and Rescue NSW is the fourth largest urban fire service in the world,with over 6,800 firefighters serving at 335 fire stations throughout the state,supported by 465 administrative and trades staff and 5,700 community fire unit volunteers. FRNSW are the busiest fire service in Australia,attending over 124,000 incidents a year.
Chief fire officer (CFO),formerly often just chief officer,is the highest rank in the fire and rescue services of the United Kingdom. There are currently 50 chief fire officers serving in the United Kingdom in charge of the local authority fire services. There is also a chief fire officer responsible for the Ministry of Defence Fire Services,which includes the Defence Fire and Rescue Service and the RAF Fire Service. Some UK airport fire services also designate their seniors officers as CFOs,though these officers rarely wear the same rank insignia as a local authority chief fire officer.
The fire services in the United Kingdom operate under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England and Wales,Northern Ireland,and Scotland.
Philip Christian Koperberg,is the Chairman of the New South Wales Emergency Management Committee,responsible for advising the New South Wales government on emergency response strategies,since 2011.
Joseph Milner,was a senior officer in the British fire service.
Firefighting has historically been a predominantly male profession throughout the world. However,since the 1970s,women have made inroads in both professional and volunteer fire departments in multiple countries. In modern times,women have served in a variety of fire service roles including as fire chiefs. Nonetheless,they comprise less than 20% of firefighters even in the countries where they are best represented.
Sir Kenneth John Knight,is a retired British firefighter and public servant. From 2003 to 2007,he was the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade and Commissioner for the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. From 2007 to 2013,he was the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser for England.
The Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) is the primary provider of fire and emergency services in Queensland,Australia. The QFES was established in 2013 to improve the coordination and planning of emergency services,adopting an "all hazards" approach to emergency management.
Danielle Amara "Dany" Cotton,is a British retired firefighter. From 2017–2019,she served as the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade and was the first woman to hold this position. She had previously been the Director of Safety and Assurance at the London Fire Brigade.
Commander Sir Aylmer Newton George Firebrace,was a British Royal Navy officer and fire chief. As a Royal Navy officer,he saw active service in World War I and participated in the Battle of Jutland. Following the war,he joined the London Fire Brigade and rose to become its Commander. With the creation of the National Fire Service,he became the first and only person to head firefighting across the whole of Great Britain.
Alasdair George Hay,is a British firefighter. He was the first Chief Fire Officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) is a fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria,Australia,that provides firefighting,rescue,HAZMAT and Emergency Medical Response services in areas of metropolitan Melbourne and major regional centres throughout Victoria.
Leslie William Thomas Leete was an English firefighter who became chief fire officer of the London Fire Brigade from 1962 to 1970 –the first LFB chief to have served in every rank within the Brigade.
Sir Frederick William Delve,,was an English firefighter who became chief fire officer of the London Fire Brigade from 1948 to 1962,and was instrumental in the fire service's adoption of modern telecommunications technologies.
Commodore Inga Jane Kennedy,is a Scottish nurse and retired senior Royal Navy officer. From 2017 to 2021,she served as Head of the Royal Navy Medical Service and Medical Director General (Naval). She was the most senior female officer in the Royal Navy by year of promotion. She previously served as Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (2011–2015) and Inspector General of the Defence Medical Services (2015–2017).
Martin Blunden is a British firefighter. He was the Chief Officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service until he stepped down in 2022.
Alex Johnson QFSM is a British firefighter,named the "Most Influential Woman in Fire" at the Excellence in Fire and Emergency Awards in December 2019. In January 2020,she started serving as the Chief Fire Officer of South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority (SYFRA). When Johnson started out as a firefighter in Derbyshire in 1992,aged 24,only 1% of firefighters in the UK were women. She said:"I never saw another female firefighter from one month to the next,there were so few of us."
Andrew Dudley Roe KFSM is a former British Army officer and firefighter currently serving as the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade.
