Fire Brigade Scotland Photos

4 appliances which entered service in the 1980’s and 1990’s

Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service provides a broad and comprehensive safety service to over 890,000 people living and working within a 2,500 square mile area of the south east of Scotland
This service includes community safety services such as safety checks in the home and advice on fire safety at work, as well as fire safety inspections for businesses.
We also provide the more visible emergency services such as firefighting and rescues from traffic accidents, which most people will know us for.
Our fire crews also carry out rescues from water, especially during the winter when ponds and lakes are frozen and when heavy rain causes flooding.
Arthur’s Seat and the cliffs at North Berwick also present their own challenge every time the Service’s line rescue team is called out to pluck people to safety.

Lothain and Borders Fire Brigade was formed on the 16th of April 1975,after Local Governmet re-organisation, from the South Eastern Area Fire Brigade with the exception of Bo’ness which went to Central Region Fire Brigade.
The brigade has thirty six fire stations of which ten are wholetime, three are wholetime and retained and twenty three are retained. These stations run a total of fifty eight appliances made up of forty nine Water Tender Ladders (including Water Tender Ladders Rescue appliances) two Turntable Ladders, one Hydraulic Platform, one Aerial Ladder Platform, one Control Unit, 1 Emergency Tender, one Heavy Rescue Vehicle and two Incident Support Units.
At two pump stations the brigade used to run a Water Tender Ladder and a Water Tender, but the Water Tender are being phased out and the stations are running with two Water Tender Ladders as machines are replaced.