The Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is the

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fire and rescue service covering

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, including

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, in the West Midlands

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. Shropshire's Fire and Rescue Service is provided by 512 full-time and

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s based at 23

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s around the county. They currently deploy 46 operational vehicles and a number of specialist appliances.

Organisation and management

Fire Authority

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is governed by elected Council representatives from Shropshire's two unitary councils,

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and Telford and Wrekin Council. Together these representatives make up the Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority, chaired by an elected councillor. Day-to-day operational control of the service is vested in a chief fire officer, Rod Hammerton.

Executive control

Within the organisation the chief fire officer has full responsibility for the service and also manages finance and resources. The remainder of executive duties fall to the senior management team, consisting of and assistant chief fire officer with responsibility for service delivery and an assistant chief fire officer with responsibility for corporate services.

Performance

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service has achieved consistently high marks in external audits carried out by the Audit Commission. Every fire and rescue service in

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is periodically subjected to a statutory inspection by

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(HMICFRS). The inspections investigate how well the service performs in each of three areas. On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows:

Notable incidents

*24 June 1983 a fire at the MOD Donnington army ordnance depot in Telford took 140 firefighters to bring under control.

References

External links

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