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Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service

Fire and rescue service in England

Summary

Fire and rescue service in England

Field	Value
name	Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
logo	Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service crest.svg
country	England
subdivision_type1	County
subdivision_name1	Northamptonshire
address	Darby Close, Park Farm Industrial Estate, Wellingborough, NN8 6GS
established
annual calls
13,174 <ref>{{Cite web	url	https://www3.northamptonshire.gov.uk/councilservices/northamptonshire-fire-and-rescue-service/Pages/default.aspx	title=Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service - Northamptonshire County Council	access-date=26 November 2018	archive-date=27 November 2018	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127042637/https://www3.northamptonshire.gov.uk/councilservices/northamptonshire-fire-and-rescue-service/Pages/default.aspx	url-status=dead }}
annual budget
employees
CFO	Nikki Watson
ALSorBLS
commissioner	Danielle Stone	divisions =
stations	22
website

13,174 (2017-18)

The Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) is a fire and rescue service covering the county of Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. NFRS covers an area of 948 sqmi area with a population of around 750,000.

History

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service was founded in 1974 when the former Northamptonshire Fire Brigade and Northampton Borough Fire Brigade (both formed in 1948 by the Fire Services Act 1947) merged.

In April 2021, Moulton Logistics Centre closed down, leaving Moulton Fire Station and the service's workshops behind. The new headquarters for the service is now shared with Northamptonshire Police, at a new site in Wellingborough.

Organisation

Since 2019, the fire service has been overseen by the Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner. It was previous overseen by Northamptonshire County Council.

NFRS has 22 fire stations, with 28 fire engines, a headquarters in Wellingborough, and an administration hub in Kettering which is shared with Northamptonshire Police. Its firefighters are split 62% wholetime and 38% retained (on-call).

Performance

In November 2018, an inspection of NFRS by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) found that the service was routinely operating below the safe number of fire engines needing to cover the county. It also found that firefighter training records were incomplete and the service could not assure itself that they all had the necessary safety-critical skills. Three follow-up visits by HMICFRS in 2019 and 2020, allowed them to announce in March 2021 that they were satisfied with NFRS progress.

Every fire and rescue service in England and Wales is periodically subjected to a statutory inspection by HMICFRS. The inspections investigate how well the service performs in each of three areas. On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows:

Area	Rating 2018/19	Rating 2021/22	Description
Effectiveness	Requires improvement	Good	How effective is the fire and rescue service at keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks?
Efficiency	Requires improvement	Good	How efficient is the fire and rescue service at keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks?
People	Requires improvement	Requires improvement	How well does the fire and rescue service look after its people?

References

"Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service - Northamptonshire County Council".
"Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service". HMICFRS.
"Inside {{!}} Office of Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioner". Office of Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioner.
"Fire stations".
"Take a look around new police base near Kettering". Daily Telegraph.
(19 March 2021). "Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service causes of concern revisit". HMICFRS.
(20 June 2019). "Northamptonshire 2018/19". [[Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services]] (HMICFRS).
(27 July 2022). "Northamptonshire 2021/22". [[Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services]] (HMICFRS).

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