Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service responsible for fire protection, prevention, intervention and emergency rescue in the county of Staffordshire and unitary area of Stoke on Trent.

The brigade functions under the control of the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Authority a joint-authority made up of councillors from several areas of the county.

Organisation

The brigade is run under the command of the Chief Fire Officer

Chief Fire Officer

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 and an executive board, and provides emergency response from 30 strategically located fire stations, divided into nine area commands:

• Staffordshire Moorlands
• Stoke-on-Trent
• Newcastle Under Lyme
• Stafford
• East Staffordshire
• South Staffordshire
• Cannock Chase
• Lichfield
• Tamworth

Fire stations

The fire service has 31 fire station

Fire station

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s. The majority are retained

Retained firefighter

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 duty stations, the rest consist of full time or day crewing stations.

• Abbots Bromley
• Ashley
• Barton Under Needwood
• Biddulph
• Brewood
• Burslem
• Burton
• Cannock
• Chase Terrace
• Cheadle
• Codsall
• Eccleshall
• Gnosall
• Hanley
• Hanley (Area Command Support)
• Ipstones
• Kidsgrove
• Kinver
• Leek
• Lichfield
• Longton
• Longnor
• Newcastle
• Penkridge
• Rising Brook
• Rugeley
• Sandyford
• Stafford
• Stone
• Tamworth
• Tutbury
• Uttoxeter
• Wombourne

Fire appliances

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service operates over 50 front line fire engines, including a number of specialist aplliances such as hydraulic platforms.

See also

• Fire service in the United Kingdom
  Fire service in the United Kingdom
  The fire services in the United Kingdom operate under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales...
  
  
• Staffordshire Police
  Staffordshire Police
  Staffordshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands of England...
  
  
• West Midlands Ambulance Service
  West Midlands Ambulance Service
  The West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the second-largest ambulance service in the UK. It is the authority responsible for providing NHS ambulance services in Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire.It is one of 12 Ambulance Trusts...