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Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service is the 
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statutory
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fire and rescue service
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covering the county of Merseyside
Merseyside ( ) is a metropolitan county, metropolitan and ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England, with a population of List of ceremonial counties of England, 1.38 million. It encompasses both banks of the Merse ...
in north-west England and is the statutory Fire and Rescue Authority responsible for all 999 fire brigade calls in Sefton, Knowsley, St. Helens, Liverpool and Wirral.
History
In 1974, the merger of the following borough fire brigades: City of Liverpool, Birkenhead, Bootle, Southport, St Helens, and Wallasey. As well as parts of Lancashire County Fire Brigade and Cheshire County Fire Brigade to create Merseyside Fire Brigade. Merseyside Fire Brigade became Merseyside Fire and Civil Defence Authority on 1 April 1986, as established by the Local Government Act 1985. In an effort to modernise fire services nationally, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 received Royal Assent on 22 July 2004. This legislation changed the name to Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority. The change of name also reflects the fact that the service, in addition to fighting fire, conducts rescues such as road traffic collisions and is heavily involved in prevention work in communities. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority Headquarters is located on Bridle Road, Bootle Since 2013, the MACC relocated from Derby Road, Kirkdale to a purpose built joint control centre withMerseyside Police
Merseyside Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Merseyside in North West England. The service area is 647 square kilometres with a population of around 1.5 million. As of September 2017 the service has 3,484 police of ...
, which is also located at the Bridle Road site.
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority is made up of five area commands as follows: Liverpool, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley, and St Helens. Within these areas are:
* 14 wholetime fire stations
* Four (LLAR) Low Level Activity & Risk (Day cover 10:00–22:00, stand down 22:00–10:00)
* One wholetime marine rescue station
* Two wholetime / day-crewed station (30 minutes resilience)
* One resilience station (30 minutes resilience)
Which provides Merseyside with 24-hour fire cover.
Performance
In 2018/2019, every fire and rescue service inEngland and Wales
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was subjected to a statutory inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
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(HIMCFRS). Another cycle of inspections was carried out starting in 2021.The inspections investigate how well the service performs in each of three areas. On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows:
See also
*Fire Service in the UK
The fire services in the United Kingdom operate under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.
Emergency cover is provided by over fifty agencies. These are officially known as a ...
*List of British firefighters killed in the line of duty
This article is a list of British firefighters killed in the line of duty since 1900. As such, it only lists those firefightersThe term ''firefighter'' is used as it is not gender-specific. Most deaths will have originally been reported as the ge ...
*Liverpool Salvage Corps
Liverpool Salvage Corps was a service in Liverpool, England, founded and maintained by fire insurers, whose aim was to reduce the loss and damage caused by fires, to help mitigate the effects of fire and of fire-fighting and to salvage both premi ...
*Motorcycles in the United Kingdom fire services
The fire services in the United Kingdom use motorcycles (fire bikes) in various roles. A number of fire and rescue services around the UK use fire bikes to deliver road safety messages. From 2005, Merseyside fire service deployed a bike in an auto ...
References
External links
*Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service
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HMICFRS
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Organisations based in Merseyside
Fire and rescue services of England
1974 establishments in England
Organizations established in 1974