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Avon Fire & Rescue Service (AF&RS) is the fire and rescue service covering the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire in South West England. The headquarters of the service is co-located with Avon and Somerset Police in Portishead.
Avon and Somerset headquarters, which it has shared with Avon Fire and Rescue Service since 2017, is in Portishead in North Somerset, close to the B3124. [28] The site was chosen when the Bristol Constabulary's Bridewell Headquarters was deemed to be too small.
The headquarters of both Avon and Somerset Constabulary and Avon Fire and Rescue Service are in Portishead. Portishead Lifeboat Station is situated close to the marina. Run solely by local Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) volunteers, it serves the waters of the Severn estuary and inland waterways into the city of Bristol .
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The service does not cover the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire which is covered by Avon Fire and Rescue Service. The service's headquarters are located at the TriService Emergency Centre in Quedgeley, near Gloucester. [1] Also operating from there are Gloucestershire Constabulary and South Western Ambulance Service.
In March 2013 their operations ceased at the centre, with all emergency call handling transferred to Bristol as part of a cost-saving drive intended to save the service £700,000. [7] Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service were also allocated a quarter of the control room; their operators wore red shirts with black epaulettes, with bars denoting rank.
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It is also responsible for education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the Avon Fire and Rescue Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the South Western ...