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Essex County Fire and Rescue Service (ECFRS) is the statutory fire and rescue service for the county of Essex in the east of England, and is one of the largest fire services in the country, covering an area of 366,980 hectares and a population of over 1.7 million people.〔()〕 The service attends around 20,000 emergency incidents per year, mostly fires (including 2,598 'primary' and 3,134 'secondary' fires in 2011/12) and traffic collisions (1,151 in 2011/12). During the same period, the service mobilised to 6,290 false alarms and 306 malicious hoax calls. Other common incidents dealt with include lift releases (421 in 2011/12), effecting entry (409), flooding (310) and animal rescues (224).〔()〕 ECFRS employs 1,605 staff, comprising 800 full-time firefighters, 495 retained firefighters, 46 control personnel and 265 support staff.〔()〕 There are 50 fire stations in Essex, 12 of which are wholetime and generally located in the more densely populated areas; 34 are retained and four are day-crewed. Major risks covered include Stansted and Southend airports, Harwich seaport, Lakeside shopping centre, Coryton oil refinery, power stations and docks at Tilbury and part of the M25 and M11 motorways and A12 road. As well as attending fires, traffic collisions and other rescue operations, ECFRS provides emergency response to hazardous materials incidents and has an urban search and rescue (USAR) team of officers with special training and equipment to conduct rescues from collapsed buildings and enclosed spaces. Their resources include a search dog trained to locate people trapped in rubble. Another primary role of the service is preventative community safety work; in 2010 ECFRS fitted over 7,000 smoke alarms in houses across the county.〔 == Organisation == ECFRS's headquarters is located in Kelvedon. The Service is divided into two Area Commands:〔(Essex County Fire & Rescue Service: About us, (accessed 16 Jan 07) )〕 #East Area Command (Rayleigh Weir) #West Area Command (Harlow) The Chief Fire Officer is David Johnson, since July 2005. The Emergency Operational Fire Control is situated in Hutton. 46 control staff handle approximately 500,000 calls each year, including over 60,000 999 emergency calls. The control staff also carry out incident co-ordination, appliance mobilisation and movements to ensure strategic fire cover, movement of personnel and advanced call handling to give life protecting advice via the telephone. Radio communications are made between incidents and Fire Control and control staff liaise with other emergency services and provide additional resources when requested by firefighting personnel. Emergency calls are handled in an average of 54 seconds from the time of answering to the time of dispatching the fire crew. There are five firefighter training centres, located in Basildon, Chelmsford, Orsett, Witham and Wethersfield.〔 The Service workshop is in Lexden, where the operational fleet of 70 frontline fire appliances and 25 specialist appliances are maintained, and the reserve fleet of spare appliances are stored. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Essex County Fire and Rescue Service」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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