Our Service
To protect our communities and respond to emergency calls we have 14 strategically positioned Fire Stations, an Emergency Communication Centre, Control Centre and a Training and Development Centre based at our Headquarters in Kempston, Bedford.
What does our Service look like?
BFRS is comprised of 14 fire stations, including a Headquarters based at Kempston.
We have five wholetime stations, crewed 24 hours a day, at Bedford, Dunstable, Kempston, Luton and Stopsley. The fire stations at Bedford and Kempston are also supported by Retained Duty System (RDS) personnel. Leighton Buzzard is day crewed by wholetime staff during the daytime and reverts to a Retained Crewing System during the night. In addition, 8 stations at Ampthill, Biggleswade, Harrold, Potton, Sandy, Shefford, Toddington and Woburn are crewed by personnel on the Retained Duty System. Our firefighters regularly train, maintain and test equipment to ensure they always remain operationally ready to respond to emergencies.
Our modern and well maintained fleet includes 25 fire appliances, 22 specialist vehicles, 35 vans, 23 cars and 2 welfare units.
As part of our blue light collaboration strategic partnership we are working with Bedfordshire Police and The East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) on a number of projects. These include supporting EEAST in responding to medical emergencies and non-emergency falls patients and assisting Bedfordshire Police with searches for vulnerable missing persons and much more.
We have highly experienced Prevention and Protection teams based strategically in the north and south of the county at our Luton and Bedford community fire stations, and welcome the co-location of emergency partners at several of our sites also.
What are our current strategic aims and objectives?
The coming years are likely to be jam-packed full of exciting new developments for BFRS.
