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Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

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

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

 

About the service

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service has 22 stations and has its headquarters Wellingborough.

The chief fire officer is the chair of the local resilience forum, which includes emergency services, local authorities, government agencies, health, utilities, military voluntary organisations and businesses. The forum identifies and assesses local risks such as flooding, pandemic flu and utility failure.

The service has the capability to deal with the consequences of terrorism, flooding and other large-scale emergencies alongside the more traditional incidents it attends such as fires and road traffic accidents.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

914 square miles

Population

0.79m million people people
up4% local 5 yr change

Workforce (FTE)

63% wholetime firefighters
37% on-call firefighters
0.49 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
up2% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

22 stations
27 fire engines

Incidents

7.0 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
2.3 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
2.5 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£20.63 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)