Fire and rescue news

News article  —  19 October 2023

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service needs to make urgent improvements

News article  —  19 October 2023

We revisited North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service to further review the progress it has made since our previous revisit.

News article  —  29 September 2023

We revisited London Fire Brigade after identifying a cause of concern to review the progress made against our recommendations.

News article  —  26 September 2023

HMICFRS has published fire and rescue services’ progress against recommendations for the first time.

News article  —  13 September 2023

Surrey Fire and Rescue Service has made improvements in some areas, but further changes are needed.

News article  —  13 September 2023

Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service still needs to improve in several areas and has not made enough progress since its last inspection.

News article  —  13 September 2023

Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service needs to urgently improve the effectiveness of its fire safety regulation.

News article  —  18 August 2023

Today we published Fire and Rescue Service reports for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Cheshire.

News article  —  16 August 2023

Avon Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) is not effectively gathering and recording up-to-date risk information, and its mobilisation system is unreliable and crashes during 999 calls.

News article  —  19 July 2023

Today we published the terms of reference for a thematic inspection of the handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services.