Cleveland Fire Brigade is the

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fire and rescue service covering the boroughs of

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in the North East of England. The name originates from the former

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which was abolished in 1996. The brigade’s area is split between the

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and

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. Cleveland is organised operationally into four Districts: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees.

History

The brigade's history started in April 1968 as the ''Teesside County Fire Brigade'', which incorporated the Middlesbrough Fire Brigade. However, six years later, the Local Government Re-organisation Act (1974) amalgamated the Teesside Fire County Fire Brigade with the Hartlepool Fire Brigade, and also took five North Riding Fire Brigade stations (Guisborough, Loftus, Saltburn, Skelton and Yarm) to form the ''Cleveland County Fire Brigade''. Another re-organisation in 1996 saw a name change to ''Cleveland Fire Brigade''. In 2012, the brigade set up a company called ''The Cleveland Fire Brigade Risk Management Services CIC'' to provide private contractual services. The first contract was one whereby the brigade provided fire cover to Ineos Nitriles based on

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, which paid several millions of pounds that Chief Fire Officer Ian Hayton stated would go back into the brigades finances as they were expecting a cut in their budget. The brigade featured in a television documentary filmed in November 2013. TV crews followed the firefighters on

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, their busiest night of the year.

Performance

Every fire and rescue service in

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is periodically subjected to a statutory inspection by

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(HMICFRS). The inspection investigates how well the service performs in each of three areas. On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Cleveland Fire and Rescue Service has been rated as follows:

Fire stations

Cleveland Fire Brigade operates 14

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s, eight of which are crewed day and night by wholetime

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s, and six are crewed by

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s who live near to their fire station and can arrive there within five minutes of a call being received. The brigade works in partnership with the North East Ambulance Service to provide emergency medical cover to areas of East

. The four stations in Guisborough, Saltburn, Skelton, and Loftus are in areas that have been identified as having a greater need for

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. The appliances are equipped with oxygen and automatic external defibrillation (AED) equipment. Rescue Vehicles 004

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History

Performance

Fire stations

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