West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
{{Short description|Fire and rescue service for West Sussex, England}}
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| employees = ~1,000
| CFO = Sabrina Cohen-Hatton KFSM
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West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service for the administrative county of West Sussex, England. It is part of West Sussex County Council. {{As of|2018|3}}, the county has 25 fire stations.
Performance
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 the service performs in each of three areas. On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows:
Fire stations
The service has 25 fire stations, which are operated according to the following crewing systems:
- Wholetime – full-time firefighters are at the station 24/7 and run on watches which change every 12 hours
- Retained – on-call retained firefighters are called to the station via pagers. Therefore, they are not always on station
- Day-crewed – full-time firefighters are in the station during the day but not the night
See also
=Other West Sussex emergency services=
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{Official website}}
- [https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/fire-and-rescue-services/west-sussex/ West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service] at HMICFRS
{{UK fire service}}
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