Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service

The service's Chief Fire Officer is Jonathon Pryce, replacing Nathan Travis, who retired in March 2021. In October 2019, HWFRS entered into a formal alliance with neighbouring Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service. The alliance covers procurement, following previous cooperation on computer systems, fire control and risk management. In June 2020, the two services announced that they were considering a single fire control centre. HWFRS has 332 wholetime operational staff, 369 retained (part-time) staff, 21 Fire Control staff, as well as about 98 non-uniformed support staff. Neighbouring fire services include: Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Mid and West Wales, South Wales and the West Midlands. ==Performance==

Every fire and rescue service in England and Wales is periodically subjected to a statutory inspection by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). The inspections investigate how well the service performs in each of three areas. On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Herefordshire Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows: == Fire stations==

HWFRS splits its fire stations into three districts North and South, both of which are located in Worcestershire, and West in Herefordshire. Each fire station is crewed using one of three duty systems, or a combination: working on a variety of shift patterns of two nine-hour day shifts and two 15-hour night shifts followed by four days off. • Retained the majority of fire stations use retained firefighters, who are on call and live or work within five minutes of the station. • Day-crewed three day-crewed stations are crewed for 12hours a day by full-time firefighters working on a shift pattern of four 12-hour shifts (07:0019:00) then four days off. The fire station is crewed by the retained firefighters at night. , there were 228 wholetime and 379 retained firefighters across the 25 fire stations. ==See also==