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 |
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| Coverage | |
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| Area | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Size | 2,380 square miles |
| Population | 147,765 |
| Operations | |
| Formed | 1975 |
| HQ | Dumfries |
| Staff | 437 + |
| Stations | 17 |
| 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.
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[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
[edit] References
- ^ Types of fire stations-wholetime/retained (accessed 27 Jan '07)
- ^ types of fire appliances/special units (accessed 27 Jan '07)
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