Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service is responding to calls for service more quickly than at any time in the last five years, with response times now averaging below ten minutes to fire incidents and road traffic collisions across the county.
Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service is responding to calls for service more quickly than at any time in the last five years, with response times now averaging below ten minutes to fire incidents and road traffic collisions across the county.
The number of fire engines available to attend incidents has also improved significantly, with at least 14 pumps now available always, whereas last year 14 pumps were only available for 87% of the time.
The latest figures confirm the improvements highlighted by HMICFRS in a letter to the the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold and the Chief Fire Officer Darren Dovey.
The figures from the first quarter of the 2020/21 financial year, which includes the pandemic lockdown, show that:
Chief Fire Officer Darren Dovey commented: “With the Covid-19 pandemic, this year has been a tough one for all emergency services and the public. It has been so important for us to have the right people and resources in place to be able to offer our “business as usual” service, but also to go the extra mile and support partners in ways we haven’t done before, such as ambulance driving for East Midlands Ambulance Service.”
Stephen Mold, Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, said: “I’m proud to see the hard work the senior officers, firefighters and service as a whole have put into ensuring the safety provision for the county continues to improve.”
