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Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service
Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service provides Fire and Rescue cover to the County of Northumberland. Northumberland is the most northerly county of England, covers an area of almost 2,000 square miles and is home to approximately 310,000 residents. More than half the population of the county live in the urban south-east corner of the county in an area which covers less than 5% of the total land area. The large rural area of the county is served by a number of market towns, which are surrounded by many small villages.
Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service's key operational activities and responsibilities include responding to and, where appropriate, preventing: fires; road traffic accidents; flooding incidents; wildfires; fires at sea; hazardous material and chemical incidents; major incidents including terrorist attacks; and providing other humanitarian services such as extracting casualties from wreckage and debris. Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service also provide expertise and support to other regions of the UK.
Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service has a long term strategic aim of improving the social, economic and environmental well being of all residents who live within the county. Central to this is preventing fires and other emergencies happening in the first place, and in doing so, reducing the incidence of deaths and injuries, and damage to property.
The Northumberland Arson Task Force (ATF) Opens in a new window, a multi-agency department established to prevent, reduce and investigate arson in the county of Northumberland, is responsible for supervising and managing the ANSFR project. A number of other departments from Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service, including the Community Safety Academy, the Wildfire Team, the Integrated Risk Management and Performance Team, and the Resilience Team, are also contributing to and benefiting from the project activities.