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The Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service currently operates out of 25 fire stations, three of which are crewed on a wholetime 24-hour basis with retained (on-call) back-up, three stations are day-crewed and retained, and 19 are crewed solely by retained on-call firefighters.
The fire station, which occupied two bays, was fenestrated by a mullioned and transomed window and an oriel window on the first floor, and by a mullioned window and an oriel window, both surmounted by gables, on the second floor. Internally, the principal room was the main trading hall which was 71 feet (22 m) long and 53 feet (16 m) wide.
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 .
Before 1974, all but one of the fire brigades in England and Wales used the term "Fire Brigade", the exception was the City of Salford, which called itself "Fire Department". After 1974, all but two of the new authorities adopted the term "Fire Service", the two exceptions being Avon County and County Cleveland.
A biogas tank was struck by lightning at a food waste recyling plant
By the 1950s, many retained stations in the UK and Ireland began to use repurposed Wartime air raid sirens also mounted on the station roof or its training tower. This was accompanied by house bells installed at on-call firefighters’ homes, connected directly to the phoneline and would ring alongside the station siren in the event of a call-out.
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The service operates 16 fire stations – 12 of which are crewed by wholetime firefighters and four use retained firefighters. [2] The community fire station at Theale, which opened in 2021, is also a base for South Central Ambulance Service and Thames Valley Police. [5] It replaced the former Dee Road (Reading) and Pangbourne fire stations. [5]