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Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

  • His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Lee Freeman is HMI for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service
  • The service is in HMICFRS’s Eastern fire region

HMICFRS’s assessment of Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire FRS, we made the following graded judgments:

 

About the service

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service for the non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire and the unitary authority of Peterborough.

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service’s headquarters is located in Huntingdon.

The service was formed in 1974 from the merger of the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Fire Brigade and the Huntingdon and Peterborough Fire Brigade.

It currently operates 27 fire stations.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

1,311 square miles

Population

0.91m million people people
up4% local 5 yr change

Workforce (FTE)

62% wholetime firefighters
38% on-call firefighters
0.45 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
up8% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

27 stations
41 fire engines

Incidents

8.7 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
2.2 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
4.5 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£20.49 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)