Bedfordshire Fire Brigade was recreated in 1947 after the disbanding of the
National Fire Service. Luton began operating an independent brigade when it became a
county borough in 1964. In 1974, the Luton brigade was re-absorbed into Bedfordshire, which was renamed Bedfordshire Fire Service. It was later renamed to
Bedfordshire & Luton Fire and Rescue Service in 1997, on the same day that Luton became a
unitary authority. This reflected that Luton was no longer in the administrative county of Bedfordshire, though Luton remained in the ceremonial county. The brigade changed to its current name in 2012, three years after the administrative county was abolished and divided into two unitary authorities. The county's control room was due to move into a regional control centre in Cambridge in 2011 as part of the abandoned
FiReControl project. The control room was kept within the service and has now been confirmed as the first fire service in the UK to be implementing a cloud based mobilising solution and integrated CAD system by Motorola in mid 2021. ==Performance==