Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS) aims to contribute to securing a safe society by reducing the incidence of death, injury and damage to property from fire and other emergencies.
Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS) prides itself on being dynamic and forward thinking.
RBFRS operates 18 fire stations, 10 wholetime (shift) stations (three with retained units), 7 retained stations and 1 wholetime day-crewed station.
• See a map of our fire stations
Our personnel make-up is:
• 418 fulltime firefighters*.
• 103 retained (part time) firefighters*.
• 169 other staff (including Call Control and Support staff).
*figures include dual contract employees who are both wholetime and retained therefore numbers may be duplicated. (All figures as of November 2011).
Brigade headquarters is based in Reading, and there is a separate training centre also based in Reading.
RBFRS is structured into the following Directorates: Service Delivery, Strategy and Risk Management, Resources and Corporate.
Select the following links to find out the structure and functions of each directorate.
• Directorates and Principal Officers
• Service Delivery
• Strategy and Risk Management
• Resources
• Corporate
Quick Links
Use these links to find out more.
- What We Do
- How We Do It
- A Safer Berkshire
- Organisation Structure and Staff
- Preventing Protecting Responding
- Firefighting and other roles
- Community fire safety
- Fire safety for business
- Training courses
- How to find us - location Maps [PDF]
- Headquarters location [interactive map]
- Training Centre location [interactive map]
- Fire station locations
