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West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service

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Country
  
United Kingdom

County
  
West Sussex

Stations
  
25

Country
  
England

Employees
  
~1,000

The West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service is statutory fire and rescue service for the administrative county of West Sussex, England. It is part of West Sussex County Council. The county as of January 2017 has 25 fire stations.

Contents

Fire Appliance Glossary/Callsigns

  • Water Rescue Ladder (WrL): P1/P2/P3
  • Light 4x4 Tender (L4T): M1
  • Water Carrier (WrC): W1
  • Aerial Ladder Platform (ALP): A1
  • Heavy Rescue Tender (HRT): R1
  • Technical Rescue Unit (TRU): R5/R6
  • Inshore Rescue Boat (IrbT): B1/B2
  • Incident Command & Control Unit (ICCU): C1
  • Command Support Unit (CSU): C2
  • Breathing Apparatus Support Unit (BASU): S1
  • Operational Support Unit (OSU): S2
  • Fire & Emergency Support Unit (FESU): S6
  • Multi-Role Vehicle (MRV): T1
  • Fire Investigation Support Unit (FISU): F1
  • Co-Responder Vehicle (CRV): V1
  • High Volume Pump (HVP): W2/W4
  • 6x6 Tender (6x6): M1

    • CBRN Response:

  • Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9


    • Urban Search & Rescue (USAR):

  • Prime Mover (PM): T5/T6/T7/T8/T9

    • Pods:

  • Module 1 - Technical Search Equipment
  • Module 2 - Heavy Transport, Confined Space & Hot Cutting
  • Module 3 - Breaching & Breaking Equipment
  • Module 4 - Multi Purpose Vehicle
  • Module 5 - Shoring Operations

    • Duty System Information

  • Retained - The RDS is when firefighters have other jobs and don't stay in station and get called in by pager to the station.
  • Day Manned - The day manned system is when firefighters are in the station in the day but not the night
  • Wholetime - Wholetime is when firefighters are at the station 24/7 and run on watches which change every 48 hours
  • Cross Crewed - Cross Crewed means that if the station has a specialised appliance'(s) this means that the crew on duty can crew the normal appliances and special ones if they have no dedicated crew.

    • References

    West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service Wikipedia
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