Final Report of Recommendations of the ANSFR Project

The final report of the ANSFR Project contains twenty six recommendations for fire and rescue services and key stakeholders in fire risk in Europe. The recommendations have been collaboratively formulated by a team of more than thirty individuals from the four project countries. Each detailed recommendation is accompanied with a list of relevant good practice that has been identified during the project. Specific good practice has been cited in order to provide justification for the recommendations and/or to provide evidence of the benefits of implementing individual recommendations. Where possible, the project team have included references and/or links to website pages for further information concerning specific examples of good practice. The project team have also made a small number of recommendations for further research and investigation on specific topics.

There is no "one size fits all" best practice for all fire and rescue services in Europe. Fire and rescue services across the continent face both similar and contrasting problems associated with fire risk within both similar and contrasting social and environmental contexts. While the final recommendations of the project have been developed primarily as a response to issues that currently exist within the four ANSFR countries, the report has been influenced by practitioners from more than 20 countries in Europe and beyond. The recommendations are therefore of significant relevance to all fire and rescue services in Europe. The project team believe that the adoption of some or all of the recommendations will enable fire and rescue services to reduce fire risk within their communities and reduce the substantial human, financial and environmental costs of fires within Europe each year.

A full copy of the report of recommendations is available for download in English, Danish, Italian and Finnish.

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