North Wales Fire and Rescue Service

Fire and rescue service in Wales

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North Wales Fire and Rescue ServiceGwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Gogledd Cymru (Welsh)

Operational area
Country| Wales
Region| North Wales
Principal areas|

* Anglesey
* Conwy
* Denbighshire
* Flintshire
* Gwynedd
* Wrexham

Agency overview
Established| 1996 (1996)
Chief Fire Officer| Dawn Docx
Facilities and equipment
Stations| 44
Website
www.nwales-fireservice.org.uk

The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (NWFRS; Welsh: Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Gogledd Cymru) is the fire and rescue service covering the principal areas of Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham in the north of Wales. With service coverage in north-west Wales being predominantly rural. The NWFRS is headquartered in St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales.

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

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The fire and rescue service operates three duty crewing systems: they are wholetime, day-crewed and an “on-call” retained duty system. 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 12 pm and 10 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 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 will be unavailable as they will have no crew.

## See also

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* List of British firefighters killed in the line of duty
* North Wales Police

## References

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

## External links

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* Official website

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