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The service was created on 1 April 2016 by the merger of Dorset Fire and Rescue Service and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service. [1] Its headquarters is at Salisbury, Wiltshire, some 10 miles (16 km) from the Dorset county boundary.
Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service was the county-wide, statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England between 1948 and 2016. Created in 1948 from a number of smaller more local fire brigades, until 1997 the service was a division of Wiltshire County Council .
A Scania built fire engine of the Dorset service.. Dorset Fire and Rescue Service is the former statutory Fire and Rescue Service for the area of Dorset, South West England.The Service Headquarters were located in Colliton Park, Dorchester, but as of October 2008 moved to a new purpose built location in Poundbury.
In 2014, the new command was stood up and established its headquarters at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth Camp alongside the new brigade's location. The new headquarters oversaw the region overseen by 43rd (W) Brigade prior to its redesignation, which included the following: City and County of Bristol, Channel Islands, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Wiltshire.
A fire engine of the London Fire Brigade, the second-largest service in the country after the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service in action The fire services in the United Kingdom operate under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England and Wales , Northern Ireland , and Scotland .
The site chosen for the emergency communications centre was on the Wiltshire Police headquarters site on London Road, Devizes, which was owned by Wiltshire Police Authority. After extensive consultation it wasn't until July 1999 that the £2.6 million of required funding was secured under the Governments 'Invest to Save' Scheme.
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Wiltshire is a unitary authority area [2] [3] in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, [4] South West England. It was formed in April 2009 following the abolition of Wiltshire County Council and the districts of Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, and West Wiltshire. They were all replaced by Wiltshire Council, [5] which is based at County Hall ...