Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service
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| Operational area | |
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| Country |
 England
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| County |
 Cornwall
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| Agency overview | |
| Employees | 752 |
| Chief Fire Officer | Paul Walker |
| Facilities and equipment | |
| Divisions | 8 |
| Stations | 31 |
| Website | |
| Website | |
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service covering Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The Service employs 428 retained firefighters, 201 full-time firefighters, plus over 120 support and administrative staff. Created under the Fire Services Act 1947 as "Cornwall Fire Brigade", the name changed to "Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service" on 1 October 2009, leaving London and Cleveland as the only two UK fire services to use the name "Fire Brigade".
The service is administered by Cornwall Council, With a new Service Headquarters (SHQ) at Tolvaddon opened in 2015
As part of the FiReControl project, Cornwall Fire and Rescue Services' control room was planned to switch over to the regional control centre in Taunton, Somerset. Originally scheduled to take place in July 2010, the cutover date was revised to January 2012, however the plan was scrapped in December 2010.
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service operates 31 fire stations, of which two are crewed day and night (wholetime), five are day-crewed (Monday to Sunday, 07:00 to 19:00) and the remainder are crewed by retained firefighters, who live near to their fire station and can arrive there within five minutes of a call being received. Due to an influx in visitors during the summer months, Newquay is changed to a wholetime structure during the summer period. The breakdown of stations is as follows:
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Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service works in partnership with South Western Ambulance Service to provide emergency medical cover to area of Cornwall. These are areas that have been identified as having a greater need for ambulance cover. The aim of a co-responder team is to preserve life until the arrival of either a Rapid Response Vehicle (RRV) or an ambulance. Co-responder vehicles are equipped with oxygen and automated external defibrillator (AED) equipment.
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