Fire and Rescue Service Statistics, Scotland 2012-13

Statistical bulletin providing statistics on Scotland Fire and Rescue Services workforce, stations, equipment, fire safety and attacks on Fire and Rescue Service personnel at incidents.


Table 2: Number of FRS vehicles by type as of 31 March 2013 - Fire and Rescue Services

  Number
Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Highlands and Islands Lothian and Borders Strathclyde Tayside Scotland
All Operational
Pumping Appliances 23 21 20 52 117 50 119 47 449
Combined Aerial and Pumping Appliances 1 2 1 2 - - 13 3 22
Fire Boats - Firefighting - - - - - - - - -
Fire Boats - Other Emergency 1 2 1 - - - 17 1 22
Vehicles Primarily for Rescue Work 1 3 2 - 16 3 2 4 31
Small Firefighting Vehicles - 1 - - 3 - 26 - 30
Others 9 - 1 - 3 9 7 - 29
Resilience- Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) 1 1 1 - - - 1 1 5
Resilience - High Volume Pumps (HVPs) 1 - - 1 - 1 1 - 4
Resilience - Incident Response Units (IRUs) 1 - - - 1 1 2 - 5
Resilience - Incident Command Units (ICUs) 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 11
Resilience - Detection, Identification and Monitoring (DIMs) - - - 1 - 1 1 1 4
Resilience - Decontamination Unit (DeConU) - 2 1 - - 1 2 - 6
Resilience - Chemical Incident Unit (CIU) - - - - - - 1 1 2
Operational Total 39 33 28 57 141 67 196 59 620
Non-Operational
Other Fleet Vehicles (including leased vehicles) 54 21 45 84 60 103 373 65 805
Total Reserve Appliances 2 5 3 5 8 8 18 10 59
Total Training Appliances 2 3 2 4 5 5 8 2 31
Non-Operational Total 58 29 50 93 73 116 399 77 895
                   
Total 97 62 78 150 214 183 595 136 1,515

Notes:

Data supplied by CIPFA

CIPFA have expanded the 'operational' category to include small firefighting vehicles and others. They have replaced 'Appliances primarily for rescue work' with 'Vehicles primarily for rescue work'.

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