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Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service |
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service
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| Coverage |
| Area |
Lincolnshire |
| Size |
5,921 km² |
| Population |
750,000 |
| Operations |
| Formed |
1974 |
| HQ |
South Park Avenue, Lincoln |
| Staff |
900 |
| Stations |
38 |
| Co-responder |
20 Stations |
| Chief Fire Officer |
Mike Thomas |
| Website |
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue
Service |
| Fire authority |
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service |
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Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue is the statutory
fire and rescue service serving the county of Lincolnshire in the
East Midlands
Region of the UK. This does not include North
Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, which
are in the Yorkshire and the Humber
Region.
Personnel
The service employs approximately 900 firefighters and staff,
with around 200 full-time firefighters. The county's 38 fire
stations are allocated to one of four Station Support Groups
(SSGs). The majority of Lincolnshire is covered by retained
(part-time) staff, who attend on a call-out basis, due to the
comparative large distances between main towns, and the county's
spartan road network. In 2007, it was announced that the fire
service had the UK's slowest average time to respond - ten minutes
- due to the distances involved. The headquarters are based on
South Park Avenue (A15) in the south of Lincoln.
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.
Compared to many other parts of the UK, arson is not very common
in the area covered by Lincolnshire Fire Service. However
Lincolnshire does have an above-average serious road accident
rate.
New
fire service uniform
On Wednesday 1 April 2009 Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service
were the first fire service to introduced the new fire service
uniform for all fire services in the UK.
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