About Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service.
2024 is a milestone year for the Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service as April marks 50 years since our formation. A lot may have changed over that time, but one thing remains constant and that’s the commitment and care shown by our people to the communities we serve.
We currently operate from 27 fire stations across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. We have four wholetime stations, three day crewed and the remainder are on-call stations, one of which is a voluntary fire station. Our fleet contains a number of different types of fire appliance, including rescue and light rescue pumps, aerial appliances, hazardous materials and command units, as well as a high volume pump. Management, professional support departments and our Combined Fire Control, which takes emergency calls from residents in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, are all based at our Service Headquarters in Huntingdon. We employ more than 600 members of staff, made up of 247 Wholetime operational staff, including Principal Officers, around 200 on-call firefighters, 42 members of staff in our Combined Fire Control and 144 staff in professional support roles.
If you are successful in your application, you will join a highly motivated people who are committed our mission of protect, prevent and respond.