Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service


Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue is the statutory fire and rescue service serving the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands Region of the UK. This does not include North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, which are covered by Humberside Fire and Rescue Service.
The area covered is large and mainly rural, with LFR coming under the authority of Lincolnshire County Council. Lincoln is the only City within the area, as well as large towns such as Grantham, Boston, Skegness, Spalding and Gainsborough. The rest of the area's inhabitants are spread over other medium-sized towns and villages, linked by rural roads that have one of the highest RTC rates in the United Kingdom.
East Coast Flooding is one of the main risks to the area, seen in the 2013 east coast tidal surge, where the town of Boston and surrounding areas of southern Lincolnshire and Norfolk were affected.

Personnel

The service employs approximately 900 firefighters and staff, with around 250 full-time firefighters. The county's 38 fire stations are allocated to one of three Divisions. The majority of Lincolnshire is covered by retained duty staff, who attend on a call-out basis. The retained staff are supported by full-time firefighters based at 9 different stations around the county. They also offer specialist skills and equipment, such as rope/high-line rescue, water rescue, animal rescues etc. Lincolnshire firefighters have supported rescue efforts nationally, such as in the floods of 2007 and most recently the Berkshire flooding in 2014 and Cumbria/North Yorkshire floods of 2015. The headquarters are now part of a joint Police and Fire HQ based at the Lincolnshire Police Headquarters in Nettleham. The county boasts its Waddington Training Facility located to the south of the city using a former part of the RAF Waddington site, allowing realistic training environments used by many other fire services and organisations.

History

Prior to 1974, when Lincolnshire was administratively three separate counties, there were three fire brigades for the geographic county, covering Kesteven, Holland and Lindsey, with Lindsey being the biggest, which formed in 1948. Grimsby had its own Grimsby Borough Fire Brigade. After 1974, much of the Lindsey Fire Brigade with Grimsby became part of Humberside Fire and Rescue Service, and still is today. Prior to 1974, this would have covered two large oil refineries at Immingham and other large fire risks - indeed the Flixborough disaster in June 1974, the largest civilian explosion in the UK, took place soon after the separation of counties in the new Humberside area, although the Lincolnshire Fire Service, in nearby Gainsborough, would have been called for assistance.

Fire Stations/Appliances

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue has 38 Fire Stations:
Currently there is only 1 wholetime station that works the 24/7 shift system. This station has 4 Watches that work 2 days followed by 2 nights, and then have 4 rest days.
The other 8 wholetime stations around the county now work the 'Lincolnshire Crewing System'. Each station has 10 wholetime personnel which work their shifts so they are generally on duty for 4 days then with 4 rest days. The days they are on duty they provide wholetime night cover from purpose built living accommodation that is in close proximity to the station. Therefore, the first appliance is always crewed by wholetime personnel.
Each wholetime station in Lincolnshire also has an RDS attachment that crew the second appliances and support the WDS staff.
Station CallsignStation NameDuty SystemAppliances
C01AlfordRetained1x WrLR
C02BardneyRetained1x WrLR 1x WSU
C03BillingboroughRetained1x WrLR, 1x CRV
C04BillinghayRetained1x WrLR
C05BinbrookRetained1x WrLR
C06BostonWholetime/Retained2x WrLR, 1x ALP, 1x WRU, 1x FloodRes
C07BourneRetained1x WrLR, 1x RIB, 1x CRV
C08Brant BroughtonRetained1x WrLR
C09CaistorRetained1x WrLR
C10Corby GlenRetained1x WrLR
C11CrowlandRetained1x WrLR, 1x CRV
C12DoningtonRetained1x WrLR, 1x HVP/HVHL*
C13GainsboroughWholetime/Retained2x WrLR, 1x WRU, 1x FloodRes, 1x HVP/HVHL*
C14GranthamWholetime/Retained2x WrLR, 1x RSU, 1x HVP/HVHL*
C15HolbeachRetained1x WrLR, 1x WrC, 1x CRV
C16HorncastleRetained1x WrLR, 1x CRV
C17KirtonRetained1x WrLR, 1x CRV
C18LevertonRetained1x WrLR, 1x CRV
C19Lincoln NorthWholetime/Retained2x WrLR, 1x RSU, 1x WRU
C20Lincoln SouthWholetime/Retained2x WrLR, 1x ALP, 1x IRU, 1x FESU
C21Long SuttonRetained1x WrLR, 1x Amb
C22LouthWholetime/Retained2x WrLR, 1x WRU, 1x CRV
C23MablethorpeRetained1x WrLR
C24Market DeepingRetained1x WrLR, 1x CRV
C25Market RasenRetained1x WrLR, 1x CSU
C26MetheringhamRetained1x WrLR
C27North HykehamRetained1x WrLR
C28North SomercoatsRetained1x WrLR, 1x CRV
C29SaxilbyRetained1x WrLR 1 x CRV
C30SkegnessWholetime/Retained2x WrLR, 1x ALP, 1x TRV
C31SleafordWholetime /Retained2x WrLR, 1x CRV, 1x TRV, 1x TSU, 1x SDU, 3x PM+5x USAR Pods
C32SpaldingWholetime/Retained2x WrLR, 1x WRU
C33SpilsbyRetained1x WrLR
C34StamfordRetained2x WrLR, 1x Amb
C35WaddingtonRetained1x WrLR
C36WainfleetRetained1x WrLR
C37Woodhall SpaRetained1x WrLR, 1x RIB, 1x Amb
C38WragbyRetained1x WrLR, 1x CRV, 1x SBP

Fire Appliance Glossary

Urban Search & Rescue :
Pods:
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service works in partnership with the East Midlands Ambulance Service to provide emergency medical cover to select areas of Lincolnshire. Currently, 11 areas have been identified as having a greater need for ambulance cover. The aim of a co-responder team is to preserve life until the arrival of either a Rapid Response Vehicle or an ambulance. Co-Responder firefighters in Lincolnshire are trained by, and operate as members of the Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency Service whilst on-call as a co-responder. However, co-responder firefighters are still dispatched and maintain communication with the fire and rescue control room in Nettleham.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue are the first Fire and Rescue Service in the United Kingdom to operate actual 'Fire Ambulances'. Three ambulances were trialed at Stamford, Woodhall Spa and Long Sutton fire stations. They were used to transport the patient to hospital care, assisting EMAS with freeing up ambulance crews and allowing the patient to reach hospital care sooner than waiting for EMAS transport.
Co-Responder Vehicles and Ambulances are equipped with equipment based from the co-responder's responder level.

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