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Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

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

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

 

About the service

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue has approximately 800 firefighters and fire staff. The county area is organised into three divisions that support the 38 stations throughout Lincolnshire.

Lincolnshire County Council is the fire authority and has responsibility for the efficient provision of Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service.

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Key facts – 2020/2021

Service Area

2,292 square miles

Population

0.77m people
up4% local 5 yr change

Workforce

33% wholetime firefighters
67% on-call firefighters
0.73 per 1000 population local
0.56 national level
down12% local 5 yr change
down5% national 5 yr change

Assets

38 stations
48 fire engines

Incidents

2.3 fire incidents per 1000 population local
2.7 national
5.5 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
2.7 national
2.7 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
3.8 national

Cost

£21.50 firefighter cost per person per year
£25.22 firefighter cost per person per year (national)