Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

Operational area
Country	England
County	Buckinghamshire
Agency overview
Employees	683
Chief Fire Officer	Jason Thelwell
Facilities and equipment
Stations	20
Website
Official website

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, is the Local Authority Fire Service serving the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire. It comprises the four districts of Buckinghamshire – Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe – and the unitary authority of Milton Keynes.

Fire Stations/Appliances

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service operates 20 fire stations, of which six are crewed day and night (wholetime), four are day-crewed (on station everyday, 09:00 to 18:00 and respond from their homes in the night) the remainder are crewed by retained firefighters who live near to their fire station and can arrive there within five minutes of a call being received.

Station Callsign	Station Name	Duty System	Appliances
JC11	Great Holm	Wholetime/Cross Crewed*	1x WrL, 1x L4P, 1x GPV
JC12	Bletchley	Wholetime/Cross Crewed*	1x WrL, 1x WrT, 1x BASU*
JC13	Broughton	Wholetime/Cross Crewed*	2x WrL, 1x OSU*, 1x IRU*
JC14	Newport Pagnell	Day Crewed/Cross Crewed*	1x WrL, 1x WRU+IrbT*
JC15	Olney	Retained	1x WrtT, 1x SFU
JC21	Aylesbury	Wholetime/Cross Crewed*	2x WrL, 1x L4P, 1x SEU*, 1x ICCU*, 1x CanV, 2x GPV, 3x PM for 5x USAR Pods
JC22	Buckingham	Day Crewed	2x WrL
JC23	Winslow	Retained	1xWrL
JC24	Brill	Retained	1x WrT
JC25	Waddesdon	Retained	1x WrtT
JC26	Haddenham	Retained	1x WrL
JC31	Amersham	Day Crewed	1x WrL, 1x WrT
JC32	Chesham	Retained	1x WrL
JC33	Great Missenden	Retained/Cross Crewed*	1x WrL, 1x OSU*
JC41	High Wycombe	Wholetime	2x WrL, 1x L4P, 1x TL, 1x GPV
JC42	Princes Risborough	Retained/Cross Crewed*	1x WrL, 1x W/FoT*
JC43	Stokenchurch	Retained/Cross Crewed*	1x WrL, 1x HLRU*
JC44	Marlow	Retained	1x WrL
JC51	Beaconsfield	Wholetime/Cross Crewed*	2x WrL, 1x WRU+IrbT*
JC52	Gerrards Cross	Day Crewed	1x WrL

Fire Appliance Glossary/Callsigns

• Water Ladder (WrL): P1/P2
• Water Ladder (WrT): P1/P2
• Water Tanker Tender (WrtT): PW1
• Light 4x4 Pump (L4P): P4
• Small Fires Unit (SFU): L1
• Water/Foam Tanker (W/FoT): W5
• Hose Layer/Retrieval Unit (HLRU): W2
• Turntable Ladder (TL): A8
• Water Rescue Unit + Inshore Rescue Boat (WRU+IrbT): B5
• General Purpose Vehicle (GPV): T1/T2
• Special Equipment Unit (SEU): S61
• Breathing Apparatus Support Unit (BASU): S5
• Operational Support Unit (OSU): S6
• Canteen Vehicle (CanV): S8
• Incident Command & Control Unit (ICCU): C7

CBRN Response:

• Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9

Urban Search and Rescue (USAR):

• Prime Mover (PM): T6/T7/T8

Pods:

• Module 1 - Technical Search Equipment
• Module 2 - Heavy Transport, Confined Space & Hot Cutting
• Module 3 - Breaching & Breaking Equipment
• Module 4 - Multi Purpose Vehicle
• Module 5 - Shoring Operations

External links

• Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
• Fire Brigades Union (Southern Region)