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Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS; Scottish Gaelic: Seirbheis Smàlaidh agus Teasairginn na h-Alba) is the national fire and rescue service of Scotland. It was formed by the merger of eight regional fire services in the country on 1 April 2013. It thus became the largest fire brigade in the United Kingdom, surpassing the London Fire Brigade.[2]

"SFRS" redirects here. For other uses, see SFRS (disambiguation).

Operational area

Scotland

1 April 2013 (1 April 2013)

8,281 (2016)

Working together for a safer Scotland[1]

357

427 (2021)

25 (2021)

20–35

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The force was established as a result of the passing of Scottish Government legislation. The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 was passed by the Scottish Parliament, and, in 2013, the new Scottish Fire and Rescue Service replaced Scotland's eight regional fire and rescue services.[3]

2013–2019:

Alasdair Hay

2019–2022:

Martin Blunden

2022–present: Ross Haggart

Wholetime (WT): A station with full-time crewing twenty-fours a day.[33]

firefighters

Wholetime/Retained Duty System (WT/RDS): As above but with providing back-up when required.[34]

retained firefighters

Wholetime/Day-Crewed (WT/DC): Livingston fire station operates with wholetime firefighters crewing the first appliance, and day-shift firefighters crewing the second appliance, and who will then respond via pager at night if required.

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Retained Duty System (RDS): Crewing on an 'on-call' basis. These are predominantly located in some of the more rural areas.

Volunteer (VOL): as above but firefighters receive no payment for their work.

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Community Response Unit (CRU): a volunteer unit with a small LDV appliance in more rural areas, where full fire cover is provided by neighbouring stations. These stations are only alerted to deal with RTC and wildfire incidents

His Majesty's Fire Service Inspectorate for Scotland

Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland

List of British firefighters killed in the line of duty

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Official website