37-481: HFRS may refer to: Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service Hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome Helicopter Flight Rescue System Helix fast-response system Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service Humberside Fire and Rescue Service See also [ edit ] HFR (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
74-491: A fire service co-responder is to preserve life until the arrival of an ambulance service paramedic . Co-responder units (CRU) consist of a single specially trained firefighter, who, where fire service operational cover is available, will take the CRU and attend a medical emergency at the request of the ambulance service. HIWFRS provides fire cover according to a system of four risk categories which have traditionally been used across
111-418: A 'C' risk incident within ten minutes, and a second within twenty minutes. Category 'D' covers more rural areas not covered by the first three categories. One fire engine should arrive at 'D' risk incidents within 20 minutes, with any further assistance available on-request by the on-scene officer in charge. HIWFRS also has fire cover for the ports of Southampton and Portsmouth, including HMNB Portsmouth, and
148-433: A 'pan-Hampshire' combined authority , but the bid was eventually unsuccessful. Hampshire County Council provides county-level services. District-level services are provided by the area's eleven district councils. The ceremonial county is divided into thirteen districts, with the county council having responsibility for the eleven districts excluding the two unitary authorities of Portsmouth and Southampton, which area
185-557: A third within eight minutes. An aerial high-reach appliance is also sent on many 'A' risk PDAs. Category 'B' areas have a medium density of large buildings and/or population, such as multi-storey residential blocks, shops and factories, and will generally be classified as 'B' risk. Two fire engines will be deployed, with the first to arrive within five minutes and the second within eight minutes. Category 'C' covers lower density, suburban areas and detached properties usually found in smaller towns and villages. One fire engine should arrive at
222-717: Is based on two types of appliance, the Enhanced and Intermediate Capability, now renamed Rescue Pump and Light Rescue Pump respectively. Since December 2014, the fire services of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have been working together to enable both services to meet their objectives in an environment of reduced budgets. Set forward in the Delivering Differently in Partnership project, the partnership led to significant benefits to both fire services. This led on 21 February 2017 to both
259-423: Is formally called the non-metropolitan county. The council has been under Conservative majority control since 1997. Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms has been as follows: The leaders of the council since 1976 have been: Following the 2021 election and changes of allegiance and by-elections up to May 2024, the composition of the council was: Two of the independent councillors and
296-549: Is responsible for receiving 999 calls and mobilising appliances across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The service is a member of the Networked Fire Services Partnership, alongside Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service and Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service . Each service uses the same command and control system, allowing interoperability and resilience if one service is under pressure. The service's search and rescue team also partner with
333-449: Is the statutory fire and rescue service for the county of Hampshire , including the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth , and the county of the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England . The service was formed on 1 April 2021 from the merger of Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service and the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service . The service's chief fire officer is Neil Odin. Until
370-543: The Quarter Sessions . The boroughs of Portsmouth and Southampton were both considered large enough to provide their own county-level services, so they became county boroughs , independent from the county council. The county council was elected by and provided services to the remainder of the county outside those two boroughs, which area was termed the administrative county . The first elections were held in January 1889, and
407-693: The Second World War , local towns had their own fire services run by parish or rural borough councils. In 1941, these were combined into the National Fire Service with Hampshire being served by fire forces 14 and 16. The Fire Services Act 1947 disbanded the National Fire Service and created county-level fire services with Hampshire Fire Service being formed in April 1948, inheriting 50 stations. Many meetings and discussions were held prior to
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#1732887472246444-542: The United Kingdom International Search and Rescue Team (UK-ISAR). The provide search teams and welfare equipment such as toilets, shelter, food water to deployed teams. Wholly owned by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Authority, 3SFire is a consultancy and training business based around offering specialist health and safety and fire training and fire safety consultancy. All profits from
481-481: The ceremonial county of Hampshire. The county council acts as the upper tier of local government to approximately 1.4 million people. It is one of 21 county councils in England . Whilst they form part of the ceremonial county of Hampshire , the two cities of Southampton and Portsmouth are unitary authorities , independent from Hampshire County Council. The county council comprises 78 elected councillors, who meet in
518-458: The Isle of Wight Council and the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Authority investigating expanding the current combined fire authority (consisting of Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth) to include the Isle of Wight. One of the key identified benefits for the Isle of Wight included transferring property and fleet liabilities to the new organisation which would otherwise need significant investment by
555-456: The Isle of Wight Council, itself under financial pressure. Following a public consultation in 2018, the plan was approved in 2019 with the new authority set to launch on 1 April 2020 but as the decision to merge was only confirmed by the Home Office in early 2020, the date was pushed back to 2021. On 1 April 2021 the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service was created by merging
592-557: The UK, where every building is rated for its risk on a scale from 'A' down to 'D'. The risk category determines the minimum number of appliances to be sent in a pre-determined attendance (PDA). Category 'A' includes areas with a high density of large buildings, specific high risk sites, and/or population, such as docklands, ports, oil refineries, fuel storage facilities, hospitals, prisons, and some commercial and industrial complexes and factories. Two fire engines are to arrive within five minutes, and
629-465: The Whitehill and Bordon Community Party councillor sit together as the "Independent Group". The other independent councillor does not belong to any group. The next election is due in 2025 . The council's main offices and meeting place are at Winchester Castle , parts of which date back to 1067. The council's part of the castle complex is known as Castle Hill and comprises more recent buildings added to
666-453: The airports of Southampton and Farnbrough. The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 gives the UK fire services the ability to call upon other services or fire authorities in what is known as mutual assistance. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service gives mutual aid to the following services: They also mobilise to support airport firefighters at Southampton Airport and Farnborough Airport. HIWFRS have their own control room that
703-403: The assets of both the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service and the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service ; all fire stations and appliances were preserved in the merger and the way in which the two respond to emergencies is unchanged. The new badge, logo and branding for the new authority was completed by design company 1721 following feedback from staff and for the desire for a single identity for
740-561: The business are returned to the Authority to assist with running the Fire and Rescue Service. Hampshire County Council Hampshire County Council ( HCC ) is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Hampshire in England. The council was created in 1889. The county council provides county-level services to eleven of the thirteen districts geographically located within
777-600: The city of Winchester , which is the county town . Since 1997, the council has been controlled by the Conservatives . In November 2022, the county council warned it may face bankruptcy within 12 months due to austerity cuts, alongside similar warnings from Kent County Council . Elected county councils were created in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 , taking over many administrative functions that had previously been performed by unelected magistrates at
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#1732887472246814-683: The control room at the Winchester Fire Station although the service was originally hoping to use and acquire North Hill House, also in Winchester , for usage as the headquarters. North Hill House was still desired by the Admiralty however and it was only in May 1948 when the admiralty gave up the premises that freed the building to be used by the service as their headquarters and control room which they occupied on 20 September 1948. Twenty years later in 1968,
851-454: The council formally came into being on 1 April 1889, on which day it held its first official meeting at Winchester Castle . George Sclater-Booth, Lord Basing , a Conservative peer and former Member of Parliament , was appointed the first chairman of the council. The Isle of Wight was covered by Hampshire County Council when it was created in 1889, but soon after it was decided that the island should have its own county council , and so it
888-526: The first shared police and fire headquarters in the country. The service changed its name once again in September 1992 to Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. On 1 April 1997, responsibility for the service was transferred from Hampshire County Council to the newly formed Hampshire Fire and Rescue Authority as local government changes created Southampton City Council and Portsmouth City Council as unitary authorities . The new Hampshire Fire and Rescue Authority
925-509: The island keeping their status as a county. Since 1980, the service has occupied the former North End School building in Eastleigh with the site becoming home to the control centre, headquarters and training centre and fully completed in December 1984; the site was officially opened by Elizabeth II on 22 March 1985. Since 2015, the site has also been the headquarters of Hampshire Constabulary ,
962-483: The new service where both elements had equal partnership. As part of the merger, the stations on the Isle of Wight are set for investment after a report by the shadow authority found they were "considerably below" the standards of the mainland. Every fire and rescue service in England and Wales is periodically subjected to a statutory inspection by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). The inspections investigate how well
999-426: The newly renamed Hampshire Fire Brigade absorbed Southampton Fire Brigade's and Portsmouth City Fire Brigade's fire stations on 1 April 1974. Portsmouth became part of division B and the division headquarters moved to Copnor while Southampton became part of division D headquartered at Redbridge. Talks existed in 1973 of the Isle of Wight also merging at this point and becoming division E, however lobbying resulting in
1036-420: The service has had to reduce costs; this included a £16 million funding gap in the 2015-20 period. The authority's plan to address this while avoiding closing any fire station or issuing any compulsory redundancies included reducing the number of operational firefighters at stations, allowing some engines to respond to minor incidents with a smaller crew and introducing smaller engines at some stations. Initially
1073-399: The service headquarters and control room moved to a floor of the newly constructed Ashburton Court, Winchester, the headquarters of Hampshire County Council . Following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 , some areas near Christchurch in the south west of Hampshire were ceded to Dorset and the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth became non-metropolitan districts . Subsequently,
1110-521: The service performs in each of three areas. On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, the service was rated as follows: HIWFRS fire stations operate on one of four duty systems: The fire stations are divided into eight geographical groups: HIWFRS works in partnership with the South Central Ambulance Service and Isle of Wight Ambulance Service to provide emergency medical cover to select areas. The aim of
1147-508: The service's creation by the Hampshire County Council fire service committees, to discuss who would be appointed the role of Chief Fire Officer and how the service would be structured. The service would be divided into four districts (later divisions) lettered A-D and initially centred on Aldershot, Fareham, Winchester and Lyndhurst respectively. Initially the service's headquarters were based at Litton Lodge in Winchester with
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1184-528: The title HFRS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HFRS&oldid=718967258 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service ( HIWFRS )
1221-491: The vision was for three types of fire engine: Enhanced Capability engines, which are similar in size to a traditional fire engine; Intermediate Capability appliances, which are slightly smaller; and First Response Capability appliances, which are much smaller. Following extensive vehicle trials, the decision was made to drop the First Response Capability appliance concept in 2019. The revised vehicle disposition
1258-470: Was created so it could act as the combined authority for the three council areas and consisted of a board made up on councillors from all three councils proportional to the size of the area served. A notable tragedy to affect the service during this time was the deaths of firefighters Jim Shears and Alan Bannon in the Shirley Towers fire on 6 April 2010. Following the period of austerity cuts from 2010,
1295-423: Was granted a coat of arms in 1992. In 1997 Portsmouth and Southampton regained their independence from the county council when they were made unitary authorities following a review by Local Government Commission for England . They remain part of the ceremonial county of Hampshire for the purposes of lieutenancy . In 2015 the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Government Association unanimously agreed to support
1332-536: Was made a separate administrative county with effect from 1 April 1890. Bournemouth was made a county borough in 1900, removing it from the administrative county of Hampshire. The council's legal name until 1959 was the "County Council of the County of Southampton", although the name "Hampshire County Council" was used informally from the council's creation in 1889. The name was officially changed to Hampshire County Council with effect from 1 April 1959. Local government
1369-454: Was reformed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , which made Hampshire a non-metropolitan county . As part of the 1974 reforms it ceded an area in the south-west of the county including Christchurch to Dorset , but the county council gained authority over Portsmouth and Southampton. The lower tier of local government was rearranged at the same time, with the county being divided into thirteen non-metropolitan districts . The council
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