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| Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service |
Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service area |
| Coverage |
| Area |
Cumbria |
| Size |
6,768 km² |
| Population |
498,800 |
| Operations |
| Formed |
1974 |
| HQ |
Station Road, Cockermouth, Allerdale |
| Stations |
38 |
| Website |
[1] |
| Fire Authority |
Cumbria Fire and Rescue Authority |
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The Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service is the county-wide, statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the Shire county of Cumbria, England. Out of the 38 Fire stations in Cumbria there are five regular (Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Kendal, Whitehaven and Workington) and 33 retained. The overall headquarters are based in centralised Cockermouth, and training centre in easily accessible Penrith.
[edit] History
The recent history of Cumbria Fire & Rescue Service really starts in 1947 when the fire service as we know it today was formed. Prior to that there was the National Fire Service and before that there were various independent services run by volunteers in villages, towns and cities throughout the country. Cumbria Fire Service was formed in 1974 after local government was reorganised. It took in Cumberland Fire Service, Westmoreland Fire Service, Carlisle and Barrow Fire Services and parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Cumbria is the second largest county in the UK. In 2005, the service changed its name to Cumbria Fire & Rescue service to reflect the new responsibilities it now has.
For a complete list of Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service's fleet see here [2].
Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service has split Cumbria into three areas, each containing two of the countys districts, they are:
| Region |
Population |
Area |
Headquarters |
Regular Stations |
Retained Stations |
| Barrow and South Lakeland |
176,780 |
1,631.26 km² |
Barrow-in-Furness |
Barrow-in-Furness, Kendal |
Ambleside, Arnside, Broughton-in-Furness, Coniston, Dalton-in-Furness (Barrow), Grange-over-Sands, Kirkby Lonsdale, Milnthorpe, Sedbergh, Staveley, Ulverston, Walney (Barrow), Windermere |
| Carlisle and Eden |
155,000 |
3,196.42 km² |
Carlisle |
Carlisle |
Alston, Appleby, Brampton (Carlisle), Kirkby Stephen, Lazonby, Longtown (Carlisle), Patterdale, Penrith, Shap |
| Allerdale and Copeland |
164,600 |
1,995.38 km² |
Workington |
Workington, Whitehaven |
Aspatria, Bootle, Cockermouth, Egremont, Frizington, Keswick, Maryport, Millom, Seascale, Silloth, Wigton |
[edit] Incidents of note
- 8 January 2005 - Carlisle and North Cumbria Floods [3], the worst flooding in living memory caused massive disruption and damage across the county. More than 3,000 properties were affected, 60,000 homes were without power and some areas of Carlisle were under 7ft of water.[4]
- 5 November 2006 - Over 100 firefighters from across South Cumbria fought a major fire which eventually destroyed two of Barrow's largest superstores (MFI and Allied Carpets)[5].
- 2 January 2008 - Dozens of firefighters fight a large blaze in Barrow's Matalan store, just next door to a construction site where MFI once stood [6].
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