Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service

Operational area
Country	England
County	Cumbria
Agency overview
Established	1974 (1974)
Chief Fire Officer	Paul Hancock
Facilities and equipment
Divisions	2
Stations	38
Engines	42
Platforms	2
Rescues	5
Website
www.cumbriafire.gov.uk

Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service is thestatutoryfire and rescue service forCumberland andWestmorland and Furness inCumbria, England. Since 2012, the headquarters for the service's 38 fire stations are at Penrith next to the headquarters ofCumbria Constabulary.

Prior to 1947, there was the National Fire Service and before that there were various independent services run by volunteers in villages, towns and cities throughout the country. Cumbria Fire Service was formed in 1974 after local government was reorganised. It took inCumberland Fire Service,Westmorland Fire Service,Carlisle andBarrow Fire Services and parts ofLancashire andYorkshire. In 2005, the service changed its name to Cumbria Fire & Rescue service to reflect the new responsibilities it now has.

Every fire and rescue service inEngland and Wales is periodically subjected to a statutory inspection byHis Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). The inspection investigates how well the service performs in each of three areas.On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows:

Of the 38fire stations,^[3]there are six wholetime inBarrow-in-Furness,Carlisle East and West,Whitehaven,Workington andKendal), of which three are supported byretained firefighters; two day-crewed (Ulverston and Penrith); and 30 retained.

The fire stations are split Cumbria into three areas, each containing two of the former districts of Cumbria:^[4]

• Allerdale and Copeland
• Barrow and South Lakeland
• Carlisle and Eden

• 8 January 2005 – Carlisle and North Cumbria Floods,^[5] the worst flooding in living memory caused massive disruption and damage across the county. More than 3,000 properties were affected, 60,000 homes were without power and some areas of Carlisle were under 7 ft (2.1 m) of water.^[6]
• 5 November 2006 – Over 100 firefighters from across South Cumbria fought a major fire which eventually destroyed two ofBarrow's largest superstores (MFI and Allied Carpets).^[7]
• 2 January 2008 – Dozens of firefighters fight a large blaze in Barrow'sMatalan store, just next door to a construction site where MFI once stood.^[8]
• 11 January 2017 – Over 50 firefighters fight a large blaze in the old House of Lords building connected to Bar Continental in Barrow-in-Furness. The fire caused the building to at least partially collapse.^[9]

• Fire service in the United Kingdom
• Cumbria Constabulary
• List of British firefighters killed in the line of duty

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