Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service was formed in 1974 from the merger of the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Fire Brigade and the Huntingdon and Peterborough Fire Brigade (which had been formed in 1965 from the merger of Huntingdonshire Fire Brigade and the Soke of Peterborough Fire Brigade); all of which had existed since 1948.
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service's headquarters are located in Huntingdon.
Fire Stations/Appliances
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service operates 28 fire stations, of which four are crewed 24/7 (wholetime), three are day-crewed 0800-1800 with on-call cover at night and the remainder are purely crewed by on-call firefighters, who live near to their fire station and can arrive within five minutes of a call being received. Uniquely, Peterborough also has a separate 'volunteer fire brigade' whose training, equipment and mobilisation falls under Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service. It is crewed by volunteers, similarlar to on-call firefighters but they do not get paid and they provide support to the wholetime crews within the city.
The breakdown of all stations is as follows:
Station Callsign
Station Name
Duty System
Appliances
B01
Cambridge
Wholetime
2x RP (1 used as Roamping Pump), 1x Wrl, 1x MS, 1x RV
Rescue Vehicle (RV) - Includes Water Rescue (Boats) / Large Animal Rescue
Incident Command Unit (ICU) - Includes Drone Response
High Volume Pump (PM+HVP)
High Volume Hose Layer (PM+HL)
Incident Support Unit (ISU) - Includes Hazmat/decontamination/Environmental
Rope Rescue - Huntingdon provide specialist Rope Rescue Response for the county.
Drones - 1x Drone on the ICU 2x Drones with specially trained officers.
Roaming Pump - An appliance crewed by wholetime firefighters 0800-1800, which provides emergency cover to areas of the county with a lack of on-call availability. One is based primarily in the North and one primarily in the South. They are moved between on-call stations to allow a response for the rural communities, as well as providing additional specialist skills that the wholetime firefighters have for the county.
Cambridge fire station
Fire authority
Cambridgeshire County Council was the fire authority until 1998 when Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire Authority was formed following local government reorganisation in the county. The fire authority comprises 17 elected councillors, 13 from Cambridgeshire County Council and four from Peterborough city council. The full authority meets four times a year at Service headquarters, situated at Hinchingbrooke Cottage on the outskirts of Huntingdon. Meetings are open to the general public.[1]
a Cambridgeshire fire and rescue service rescue pump in Cambridge
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