North Wales Fire and Rescue Service

The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (Welsh: Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Gogledd Cymru) is the fire and rescue service covering the predominantly rural principal areas of Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham in the north of Wales.

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service


Operational area
CountryUnited Kingdom
PartWales
RegionNorth Wales
Agency overview
Established1996 (1996)
Chief Fire OfficerSimon Smith
Facilities and equipment
Stations44
Website
www.nwales-fireservice.org.uk

The service was created in 1996 by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 which reformed Welsh local government, by a merger of the previous Clwyd and Gwynedd fire services. It covers an area of 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2) with around 670,000 people. The Service employs over 1000 staff in operational and support roles.[1]

The fire authority which administers the service is a joint board made up of councillors from Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham councils.

Fire stations and appliances

North Wales Fire & Rescue Service is the only fire service in the UK to not use electronic sirens. All of their fire appliances have either two-tone horns or Martinshorn fitted.

The fire & rescue service operates three duty crewing systems: they are wholetime (WT), day-crewed (DC) and an “on-call” retained duty system (RDS). Wholetime fire appliances are crewed twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Day-crewed appliances are crewed by wholetime firefighters based at the fire station between 8 am and 6 pm. The same firefighters then provide cover from home outside of these hours as retained firefighters. Retained firefighters are summoned to the fire station by pager from home or work to respond to emergency calls. Cross-crewing (CC) is a cost-cutting measure that sees various fire appliances being crewed by a single crew. This means, for example, if an appliance in the cross-crewing system responds to an incident, any other appliances in the system have to go off-the-run as they will have no crew. Many UK fire services have been forced to operate this system because of cuts to their budgets.

Station callsign Station name Duty system Appliances
WN01CaernarfonDC/RDS/CC*2x WrL, PM: HVP wfu foc
WN02BangorDC/RDS/CC*2x WrL, ALP, WIU & IRBt*, IRU*
WN03HolyheadDC/CC*2x WrL, EPU, ET*
WN04DolgellauRDS/CC*WrL, DRP, CRV
WN05AberdyfiRDSWrL
WN06AbersochRDSWrL
WN07AmlwchRDSWrL, DRP
WN08BalaRDSWrL
WN09BarmouthRDSWrL
WN10BeaumarisRDSWrL
WN11BenllechRDSWrL
WN12Blaenau FestiniogRDSWrL, L6P
WN13HarlechRDSWrL
WN14LlanberisRDSWrL
WN15LlangefniRDSWrL, DRP
WN16Menai BridgeRDSWrL
WN17NefynRDSWrL
WN18PorthmadogRDSWrL
WN19PwllheliRDS2x WrL, CRV drp
WN20RhosneigrRDSWrL
WN21TywynRDSWrL
WN22LlandudnoDC/RDS/CC*2x WrL, GPV*, 2x PM*: HVP, HLU
WN23Colwyn BayDC/CC*2x WrL flood pod
WN24RhylWT/RDS/CC*2x WrL, ALP, GPV, ICU*
WN25AbergeleRDSWrL, DRP wfu
WN26Betws-y-CoedRDS/CC*WrL, WIU & IRBt*
WN27CerrigydrudionRDSWrL
WN28ConwyRDSWrL, DRP
WN29CorwenRDSWrL, Wfu
WN30DenbighRDSWrL, DRP
WN31LlanfairfechanRDSWrL
WN32LlangollenRDSWrL, DRP, CRV
WN33LlanrwstRDSWrL, DRP
WN34PrestatynRDSWrL
WN35RuthinRDS/CC*WrL, WIU & IRBt*
WN36St. AsaphRDSWrL
WN37WrexhamWT/CC*3x WrL, ALP, ET*, EPU*, GPV
WN38DeesideWT/RDS/CC*2x WrL, WIU & IRBt*, FoC*
WN39BuckleyRDSWrL
WN40ChirkRDSWrL
WN41FlintRDSWrL
WN42HolywellRDSWrL
WN43JohnstownRDSWrL
WN44MoldRDSWrL

Fire appliance glossary
  • WRL - Water Ladder: P1 / P2 / P3
  • DRP - Dual-Role Pump: M1
  • WfU - Wildfire Unit: W1
  • L2P - Light two-wheeled drive Pump: L1
  • L6P - Light six-wheeled drive Pump: L1
  • ALP - Aerial Ladder Platform: A1
  • WIU & IRBt - Water Incident Unit & Inflatable Rescue Boat: B1
  • ICU - Incident Command Unit: C1
  • EPU - Environmental Protection Unit: H1
  • ET - Emergency Tender: R1
  • FoC - Foam Carrier: S1
  • ISU - Incident Support Unit: S1
  • GPV - General Purpose Vehicle: T1 / T7
  • PM - Prime Mover: T8 / T9
  • CRV - Community Response Vehicle

Pods:

  • HVP - High Volume Pump
  • HLU - Hose Layer Unit

Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear response

  • IRU - Incident Response Unit: H9

See also

References
  1. About Us Archived 2 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine From official website
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