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Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is responsible for serving Essex including the unitary authorities of Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea.

Contact this service for:

  • home and business safety checks
  • advice for builders and building owners
  • help installing smoke alarms
  • school visits
  • community events
  • jobs, apprenticeships and volunteering
  • youth and cadet schemes
  • complaints

Contact details

Telephone
Address
Headquarters,
Kelvedon Park,
Rivenhall,
Witham,
Essex,
CM8 3HB

Data for this service

Updated quarterly

16,476

Incidents attended

-8% less compared with previous year

Incidents breakdown

Updated quarterly

Fires false alarms 41%

Fires 24%

Non-fire incidents e.g. road traffic collisions 35%

6,725False Alarms

False Alarms

3,910Fires

Fires

5,841Non fire incidents

Non fire incidents

Workforce and assets

Updated annually

1,146

firefighters

50Stations

Fire stations

120Appliances

Fire appliances (pumps, aerial, other)

5% of firefighters are women

6.7% of firefighters are ethnic minority

Funding

Updated annually at different times

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Current and historical data for this service are published on GOV.UK. This includes: 

  • the type of incidents attended
  • causes of fires
  • deaths and injuries from fire
  • workforce numbers and diversity
  • firefighter pensions
  • fire prevention and protection activity

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Fire and rescue services are required to publish the following financial information:

These requirements come from the local government transparency code 2015.


HMICFRS Inspection Results

Essex in their HMICFRS inspection report received the following gradings in the three inspection categories – 

Effectiveness - Requires improvement

Efficiency - Requires improvement

People - Requires improvement.

The report was published on 17 December 2019 and can be found at - https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/publications/frs-assessment-2018-19-essex/.


Who manages Essex Fire and Rescue Service

Chief Fire Officer: Rick Hylton

Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner: Roger Hirst 

The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner is responsible for the fire and rescue service. There is protected funding for fire and rescue.

Integrated Risk Management Plans (IRMP)

It is a requirement under the Fire and Rescue National Framework that each Fire and Rescue Authority must produce an Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP).  The IRMP should be easily accessible and publicly available.  Each plan must reflect all foreseeable fire and rescue related risks that could affect their communities, whether they are local, cross-border, multi-authority and/or national in nature; set out its management strategy; reflect effective consultation throughout its development with the community, its workforce & partners, and cover at least a three-year timespan.  Most Fire and Rescue Authority will review and update their IRMP on an annual basis.

View the long term plan for fire and rescue services in Essex (IRMP).


Complaints

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