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Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is the 
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service
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statutory
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fire and rescue service covering the county of Merseyside
Merseyside ( ) is a ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial and metropolitan county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Greater Manchester to the east, Cheshire to the south, the Wales, Welsh county of Flintshire across ...
in north-west England and is the statutory Fire and Rescue Authority responsible for all 999 fire brigade calls in Sefton, Knowsley, St. Helens, Liverpool and Wirral.
History
In 1974, six borough fire brigades (City of Liverpool, Birkenhead, Bootle, Southport, St Helens, and Wallasey), as well as parts of Lancashire County Fire Brigade and Cheshire County Fire Brigade merged to create Merseyside Fire Brigade. Merseyside Fire Brigade became Merseyside Fire and Civil Defence Authority on 1 April 1986, as established by theLocal Government Act 1985
The Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51) is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Its main effect was to abolish the six county councils of the metropolitan county, metropolitan counties that had been set up by the Local Government Act 1972, ...
.
In an effort to modernise fire services nationally, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 received royal assent on 22 July 2004. This legislation changed the name to Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority. The change of name also reflects the fact that the service, in addition to fighting fire, conducts rescues such as road traffic collisions and is heavily involved in prevention work in communities.
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority headquarters is located on Bridle Road, Bootle
Since 2013, the MACC relocated from Derby Road, Kirkdale to a purpose built joint control centre with Merseyside Police
Merseyside Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Merseyside in North West England. The service area is 647 square kilometres with a population of around 1.5 million. As of September 2017 the service has 3,484 police o ...
, which is also located at the Bridle Road site.
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority is made up of five area commands as follows: Liverpool, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley, and St Helens. Within these areas are:
* 13 wholetime fire stations
* Four (LLAR) low level activity and risk (day cover 10:00–22:00, stand down 22:00–10:00)
* One wholetime marine rescue station
* Two wholetime / day-crewed station (30 minutes resilience)
* One resilience station (30 minutes resilience)
Which provides Merseyside with 24-hour fire cover.
Performance
Every fire and rescue service inEngland and Wales
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is periodically subjected to a statutory inspection by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). The inspections investigate how well the service performs in each of three areas. On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows:
See also
* Fire services in the United Kingdom *List of British firefighters killed in the line of duty
This article is a list of British firefighters killed in the line of duty since 1900. As such, it only lists those firefightersThe term ''firefighter'' is used as it is not gender-specific. Most deaths will have originally been reported as the ge ...
* Liverpool Salvage Corps
* Motorcycles in the United Kingdom fire services
References
External links
*Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service
at HMICFRS {{UK fire service Organisations based in Merseyside Fire and rescue services of England 1974 establishments in England Organizations established in 1974