Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service

What Do We Do?

The effects of fire can be devastating to life and property and we are 100% committed to reducing its impact on peoples’ lives in Lancashire.  We work closely with other organisations to prevent fire in the first place, making sure the best possible protection measures are in place and providing a first-class emergency response if the worst happens.

We are pleased to be among the top performing services in the country, as we think the public of Lancashire deserve the best.  But we are not complacent.  We know there is still work to be done to make Lancashire even safer.

We operate 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 365 days-a-year.

We provide fire and rescue services on behalf of the Lancashire Combined Fire Authority to the one-and-a-half million people living or working in Lancashire.  Operating from thirty-nine fire stations across the county, a service headquarters at Fulwood in Preston and a training centre at Euxton, we employ over 1500 staff in a variety of roles to provide services every hour of the day, every day of the year.

The range of community safety risk is extensive and changing quickly, requiring us to allocate resources on the basis of risk and reducing risk as far as possible.

We define the extent of risk as being the likelihood that something will happen, multiplied by the severity of the consequences if it does. This means that we focus our efforts on:

• reducing the chance of fire happening through prevention work 
• restricting the impact if it does through protection work
• providing a quick and professional response to emergencies to mitigate the consequences if all else fails

Further information about how we analyse and calculate risk is set out in our  website ‘How we Plan’. Full analysis of the current risk in Lancashire is set out in our Performance Report and Action Plan. 

Making Lancashire Safer is the simple commitment we give to the people we serve and defines the overall purpose that our staff are working to achieve.  It also illustrates that we are increasingly working with a variety of partners including local authorities, police, primary care trusts and care providers to bring about better results than could be achieved by working by ourselves.

Home Fire Safety Check

You can receive your own personalised, fire safety advice.

If we believe that you have a higher risk of having a fire, your contact details will be sent to our Contact Centre who will arrange a home fire safety check visit with you.