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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.
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.
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service watch manager Mark Hillier, 47, was killed on the A345 Salisbury Road at Pewsey, Wiltshire, on Thursday. "Mark lived and breathed for the fire service ...
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 .
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However, the building was also used as the headquarters of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry at this time, [6] [8] and continued to be a yeomanry drill hall until the yeomanry moved its headquarters to Trowbridge in 1920. [8] The Fire Brigade used the east end of the building from 1870 and then almost the whole building from 1911 to 1945. [2]