North Wales Fire and Rescue Service operates 44 Fire Stations. Bangor, Caernarfon, Colwyn Bay, Deeside, Holyhead, Llandudno, Rhyl and Wrexham are all crewed by wholetime firefighters. All stations also have a retained crew.. Within these stations are a total of 54 firefighting appliances, 1 Incident Command Unit at Rhyl, 3 Aerial Ladder Platforms at Bangor, Rhyl and Wrexham in addition to 28 other specialised response vehicles such as foam carriers and high volume pumps. As of 2025, Porthmadog and Dolgellau are also wholetime crewed as part of a "nucleus trial", where the wholetime firefighters form a crew with the retained firefighters in that area. The fire and rescue service operates three duty crewing systems: they are wholetime, day-crewed and an “on-call” retained duty system. Wholetime fire appliances are crewed twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Day-crewed appliances are crewed by wholetime firefighters based at the fire station between 8am and 6pm. The same firefighters then provide cover from home outside of these hours as retained firefighters.
Retained firefighters are summoned to the fire station by pager from home or work to respond to emergency calls. Cross-crewing is a cost-cutting measure that sees various fire appliances being crewed by a single crew. This means, for example, if an appliance in the cross-crewing system responds to an incident, any other appliances in the system will be unavailable as they will have no crew. == List of Fire Stations ==