Dumfries and Galloway Fire and Rescue Service

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Dumfries and Galloway Fire and Rescue Service

Dumfries and Galloway Fire and Rescue Service area
Coverage
Area	Dumfries and Galloway
Size
Population
Operations
Formed
HQ
Staff	437 +
Stations	17
Chief Fire Officer	John Bonney
Website	Dumfries and Galloway FRS
Fire Authority	Dumfries and Galloway Fire and Rescue Authority.

Dumfries and Galloway Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue sercvice for the area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Contents 1 Statistics 2 Appliances 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Statistics

The service has a total of 17 fire stations in operation, these vary in terms of part time, whole-time and both whole-time and retained combined, currently there are:

• One station covered by whole-time and retained
• 15 stations covered by part time staff
• One Auxiliary unit located at Drummore^[1]

[edit] Appliances

The FRS has a toal of 29 fire appliances which cover the whole area of Dumfries and Galloway. The majority of these are regular fire and rescue appliances and the remainder are specialist units:

• 21 Fire and rescue appliances
• 2 Specialist rescue vehicles.
• 1 Aerial ladder platform (ALP)
• 1 Incident control unit
• 2 Decontamination units
• 1 Urban search and rescue unit
• 1 Auxiliary firefighting unit^[2]

[edit] See also

• FiReControl
• Fire apparatus
• Fire engine
• Fire service in the United Kingdom
• Fire

[edit] References

1. ^ Types of fire stations-wholetime/retained (accessed 27 Jan '07)
2. ^ types of fire appliances/special units (accessed 27 Jan '07)