Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Operational area
Country	England
County	Northamptonshire
Agency overview
Chief Fire Officer	M Emberson
Facilities and equipment
Stations	22
Website
Official website

The Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service is the fire and rescue service covering the county of Northamptonshire in the English East Midlands.

History

The Northamptonshire Fire Brigade and the separate Northampton Borough Fire Brigade were created in 1948 by the Fire Services Act 1947. In 1974 the Northampton FB was merged with Northamptonshire FB to create the present service.

Fire Stations/Appliances

Station Callsign	Station Name	Duty System	Appliances
M01	The Mounts	Wholetime	1x WrL, 1x LiRU, 1x COV
M02	Towcester	Retained	1x WrL, 1x WrC
M03	Woodford Halse	Retained	1x WrL
M04	Daventry	Day Crewed/Cross Crewed	2x WrL, 1x CIV, 1x RIV, 1x ICCU, 1x IRU
M05	Long Buckby	Retained	1x WrL, 1x IIV
M06	Guilsborough	Retained	1x WrL, 1x CRV
M07	Brixworth	Retained	1x WrL
M08	Brackely	Retained	1x WrL, 1x IIV
M09	Moulton	Wholetime/Retained/Cross Crewed*	2x WrL, 1x ARP, 1x CIV, 1x PM* for: 1x BASU, 1x WelFU, 1x GPP
M10/M28	Mareway	Wholetime	1x WrL, 1x HRT, 1x WRU+IrbT
M11	Kettering	Wholetime/Cross Crewed*	2x WrL, 1x IIV, 1x PM* for Pods: 1x WrC, 1x BFU
M12	Corby	Wholetime/Retained/Cross Crewed*	2x WrL, 1x ARP, 1x PM+HVP, 1xPM+HVHL
M13	Rothwell	Retained	1x WrL
M14	Oundle	Retained	1x WrL
M15	Thrapston	Retained	1x WrL, 1x IIV
M16	Raunds	Retained	1x WrL, 1x IIV
M17	Burton Latimer	Retained	1x WrL
M18	Desborough	Retained	1x WrL, 1x IIV
M19	Earls Barton	Retained	1x WrL
M20/M28	Wellingborough	Wholetime/Retained	2x WrL, 1x WRU/ARU, 1x WRU+IrbT
M21	Irthlingborough	Retained	1x WrL, 1x CRV
M22	Rushden	Day Crewed	1x WrL

Fire Appliance Glossary/Call signs

Pump (WrL): P1/P2
Aerial Rescue Pump (ARP): P6
Rapid Intervention Vehicle (RIV): L1
Cobra Intervention Vehicle (CIV): L2
Water Carrier (WrC): W1
Prime Mover (PM) + High Volume Pump (HVP): T8
Prime Mover (PM) + Double Hose Layer Unit (HVHL): T9
Initial Intervention Vehicle (IIV): R1
Heavy Rescue Tender (HRT): R1
Line Rescue Unit (LiRU): R2
Water Rescue Unit + Inshore Rescue Boat (WRU+IrbT): B1/B2
Water Rescue Unit/Animal Rescue Unit (WRU/ARU): R1
Co-Responder Vehicle (CRV): V1
Incident Command & Control Unit (ICCU): C1
Community Outreach Vehicle (COV): C1
Prime Mover (PM): T2

Pods:

Water Carrier (WrC)
Bulk Foam Unit (BFU)
Breathing Apparatus Support Unit (BASU)
Welfare Unit (WelFU)
General Purpose Pod (GPP)

CBRN Response:

Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9

References

Fire services in the United Kingdom

England	Avon Bedfordshire & Luton Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire (Peterborough) Cheshire Cleveland Cornwall County Durham & Darlington Cumbria Derbyshire Devon and Somerset Dorset East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Greater Manchester Hampshire Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Humberside Isles of Scilly Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire & Rutland Lincolnshire London Merseyside Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland North Yorkshire Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire

Scotland	Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

Wales	Mid & West Wales North Wales South Wales

Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service

Channel Islands	Jersey Fire and Rescue Service

Other	Airport fire services Defence Fire and Rescue Service Defence Fire Training and Development Centre Fire Service College

Historic	National Fire Service Ministry of Civil Aviation Aerodrome Fire Service

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