Country United Kingdom County Wiltshire and Dorset | Country England Annual budget £54.8 million (2016) | |
Address Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service, Five Rivers Health & Wellbeing Centre, Hulse Road, Salisbury, SP1 3NR Established 1 April 2016 (1 April 2016) | ||
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service is an statutory emergency fire and rescue service covering the local authority areas of Bournemouth, Dorset, Poole, Swindon, and Wiltshire.
The service was created on 1 April 2016 by the merger of the Dorset Fire and Rescue Service and the Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service. Its headquarters is at Salisbury, Wiltshire, some 10 miles (16 km) from the Dorset county boundary. The former headquarters at Poundbury, Dorset, and Potterne, Wiltshire, are retained as area offices; emergency calls for the combined area have been answered by a control centre at Potterne since August 2015.
Provision of the service is by the Dorset and Wiltshire Combined Fire Authority, created in April 2015, which has thirty elected members from all five constituent councils and is chaired by Dorset county councillor Rebecca Knox.
In September 2016 Ben Ansell was appointed as the service's second Chief Fire Officer, succeeding Darran Gunter with effect from December 2016.