Operations
Avon Fire & Rescue Service has a fleet of 81 appliances including 47 Pumping Appliances, eight New Dimension appliances, six Aerials, three Rescue Tenders, and 16 other Special appliances. 21 Trailers, Boats, Pods and Fork Lift Trucks are used operationally. Avon Fire & Rescue Service also utilise a fleet of ancillary vehicles. These include 49 cars, 19 vans, four 4x4s, three PCVs, three MPVs, one Control Emergency Evacuation Vehicle and one Fire & Emergency Support Service vehicle. 19 Trailers are also used non-operationally.
As part of the now-defunct FiReControl project, Avon Fire & Rescue's control room was intended switch over to the regional control centre in Taunton. Originally scheduled to take place in May 2010, the cutover date was revised to November 2011, before the plan was formally scrapped in December 2010.
On 1 January 2009, Yate Fire Station was upgraded to wholetime / retained status meaning that firefighters are ready to respond to calls 24/7. Previously, the station was day crewed / retained, which meant that the station was only crewed from 0800–1700. Outside this time, firefighters responded to the station from their homes or work places.
In 2009, Avon took delivery of the first Polybilt bodied Combined Aerial Rescue Platform (CARP). It was allocated to Patchway fire station. A second Combined Aerial Rescue Pump is now with Avon at Bedminster fire station and went into service in February 2011.
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