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Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

  • His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire and Rescue Services (HMI): HM Chief Inspector of Fire and Rescue Services (FRS) Andy Cooke is temporary HMI for Hereford and Worcester FRS
  • The service is in HMICFRS’ Western fire region

HMICFRS’s assessment of Hereford and Worcester 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 Hereford and Worcester FRS, we made the following graded judgments:

 

About the service

Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service has 25 stations with 41 fire engines strategically located across the two counties. All stations respond to emergencies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The service receives nearly 10,000 emergency calls each year requesting assistance at a wide variety of incidents, including property and countryside fires, road traffic collisions, collapsed structures, hazardous materials and animal and water rescues. It attends just over 6,500 incidents each year – more than 125 incidents every week..

The service has around 250 wholetime firefighters. It also hosts one of 29 national urban search and rescue specialist units.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

1,514 square miles

Population

0.80m million people people
up2% local 5 yr change

Workforce (FTE)

53% wholetime firefighters
47% on-call firefighters
0.57 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
down2% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

25 stations
41 fire engines

Incidents

9.8 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
3.2 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
4.6 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£23.03 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)