North Wales Fire and Rescue Service

The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (Welsh: Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Gogledd Cymru) is the fire and rescue service covering the predominantly rural principal areas of Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham in the north of Wales.

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service

Operational area
Country	United Kingdom
Part	Wales
Region	North Wales
Agency overview
Established	1996 (1996)
Chief Fire Officer	Simon Smith
Facilities and equipment
Stations	44
Website
Official website

The service was created in 1996 by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 which reformed Welsh local government, by a merger of the previous Clwyd and Gwynedd fire services. It covers an area of 2,400 square miles (6,200 km²) with around 670,000 people. The Service employs over 1000 staff in operational and support roles.[1]

The fire authority which administers the service is a joint board made up of councillors from Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham councils.

Fire stations/appliances

North Wales Fire & Rescue Service is the only fire service in the UK to not use sirens. All of their fire engines have either two tone horns or Martinhorns fitted

Station callsign	Station name	Duty system	Appliances
WN01	Caernarfon	Day crewed/retained/cross crewed*	2x WrL, 1x HVP
WN02	Bangor	Day crewed/retained/cross crewed*	2x WrL, 1x ALP, 1x WIU+IrbT*, 1x IRU*
WN03	Holyhead	Day crewed/cross crewed*	2x WrL, 1x EPU, 1x ET*
WN04	Dolgellau	Nucleus/cross crewed*	1x WrL, 1x DrP, 1 crv
WN05	Aberdyfi	Retained	1x WrL
WN06	Abersoch	Retained	1x WrL
WN07	Amlwch	Retained	1x WrL, 1x DrP
WN08	Bala	Retained	1x WrL
WN09	Barmouth	Retained	1x WrL,
WN10	Beaumaris	Retained	1x WrL
WN11	Benllech	Retained	1x WrL
WN12	Blaenau Festiniog	Retained	1x WrL, 1x L6P
WN13	Harlech	Retained	1x WrL, 1x L2P
WN14	Llanberis	Retained	1x WrL
WN15	Llangefni	Retained	1x WrL, 1x Drp
WN16	Menai Bridge	Retained	1x WrL
WN17	Nefyn	Retained	1x WrL
WN18	Porthmadog	Retained	1x WrL, 1x DrP
WN19	Pwllheli	Retained	2x WrL, 1xcrv
WN20	Rhosneigr	Retained	1x WrL
WN21	Tywyn	Retained	1x WrL
WN22	Llandudno	Day crewed/retained/cross crewed*	2x WrL, 1x GPV*, 2x PM*, pods: 1x HVP, 1x HLU
WN23	Colwyn Bay	Day crewed/cross crewed*	2x WrL
WN24	Rhyl	Wholetime/retained/cross crewed*	2x WrL, 1x ALP, 1x GPV, 1x ICU*
WN25	Abergele	Retained	1x WrL, 1x DrP
WN26	Betws-Y-Coed	Retained/cross crewed*	1x WrL, 1x WIU+IrbT*
WN27	Cerrig-Y-Drudion	Retained	1x WrL
WN28	Conwy	Retained	1x WrL, 1x DrP
WN29	Corwen	Retained	1x WrL, 1x DrP
WN30	Denbigh	Retained	1x WrL, 1x DrP
WN31	Llanfairfechan	Retained	1x WrL
WN32	Llangollen	Retained	1x WrL, 1x DrP
WN33	Llanrwst	Retained	1x WrL, 1x DrP
WN34	Prestatyn	Retained	1x WrL
WN35	Ruthin	Retained/cross crewed*	1x WrL, 1x WIU+IrbT*
WN36	St. Asaph	Retained	1x WrL
WN37	Wrexham	Wholetime/cross crewed*	3x WrL, 1x ALP, 1x ET*, 1x EPU*, 1x GPV
WN38	Deeside	Wholetime/retained/cross crewed*	2x WrL, 1x WIU+IrbT*, 1x FoC*,
WN39	Buckley	Retained	1x WrL
WN40	Chirk	Retained	1x WrL, 1x DrP
WN41	Flint	Retained	1x WrL
WN42	Holywell	Retained	1x WrL
WN43	Johnstown	Retained	1x WrL
WN44	Mold	Retained	1x WrL,

Fire appliance glossary

• Water Ladder (WrL): P1 / P2 / P3
• Dual Role Pump (DrP): M1
• Light 2x2 Pump (L2P): L1
• Light 6x6 Pump (L6P): L1
• Aerial Ladder Platform (ALP): A1
• Water Incident Unit + Inshore Rescue Boat (WIU+IrbT): B1
• Incident Command Unit (ICU): C1
• Environmental Protection Unit (EPU): H1
• Emergency Tender (ET): R1
• Foam Carrier (FoC): S1
• Incident Support Unit (ISU): S1
• General Purpose Vehicle (GPV): T1 / T7
• Prime Mover (PM): T8 / T9

Pods:

• High Volume Pump (HVP)
• Hose Layer Unit (HLU)

CBRN Response

• Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9

See also

• List of British firefighters killed in the line of duty
• North Wales Police

External links

• Official website

References

1. About Us Archived 2 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine From official website