Avon Fire and Rescue Service
Avon Fire and Rescue Service is currently in our Engage stage of enhanced monitoring.
HMICFRS region and HMI
- His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Michelle Skeer is temporary HMI for Avon Fire and Rescue Service
- The service is in HMICFRS’s Western fire region
HMICFRS’s assessment of Avon Fire & Rescue Service
Our Fire and Rescue Service assessments give you information about how your local fire and rescue service has performed in several important areas. In our latest assessments of Avon FRS, we made the following graded judgments:
About the service
Avon Fire and Rescue Service provides emergency and protection services to the communities of Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
While firefighting has traditionally been at the forefront of its work, there is now also a focus on accident and emergency prevention. The service provides advice and education through events, visits, campaigns and partnership working.
The service responds to a range of incidents and emergencies from road traffic collisions and fires, to flooding and chemical spills.
The service’s headquarters is based in Portishead and it has 21 stations across the area. There are also three community safety centres which provide safety advice, internet access and meeting facilities free of charge to local groups. 999 emergency calls are answered by fire service control, based at Lansdown in Bath.
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Recent news
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations progress update
- Avon Fire and Rescue Service: Causes of concern revisit letter
- Fire and Rescue Services make progress to improve culture, but more must be done to tackle unacceptable behaviour
- Two cause of concern revisit letters published
- Avon Fire and Rescue Service: Causes of concern revisit letter
Recent publications
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations progress update
- Avon Fire and Rescue Service: Causes of concern revisit letter
- Standards of behaviour: The handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services
- Avon Fire and Rescue Service: Cause of concern revisit letter
- Avon Fire and Rescue Service: Causes of concern revisit letter