West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service

West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service

Operational area
Country	United Kingdom
Country	England
County	West Sussex
Agency overview
Employees	~1,000
Facilities and equipment
Stations	25
Website
Official website

The West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service is statutory fire and rescue service for the administrative county of West Sussex, England. It is part of West Sussex County Council. The county as of March 2018 has 25 fire stations.

Fire stations/appliances

Duty system information

• Retained - The RDS is when firefighters are called to the station via pagers. Therefore, they are not always on station
• Day Manned - The day manned system is when firefighters are in the station during the day but not the night
• Wholetime - Wholetime is when firefighters are at the station 24/7 and run on watches which change every 48 hours
• Cross Crewed - Cross Crewed means that if the station has a specialized appliance(s) this means that the crew on duty can crew the normal appliances and special ones if they have no dedicated crew

Fire appliance glossary/callsigns

• Water Ladder (WrL): P1/P2/P3
• Light 4x4 Tender (L4T): M1
• Light 6x6 Tender (L6T): M1
• Water Carrier (WrC): W1
• Aerial Ladder Platform (ALP): A1
• Heavy Rescue Tender (HRT): R1
• Technical Rescue Unit [Unimog] (TRU - Unimog): R2
• Technical Rescue Unit [Water Rescue Unit] (TRU - WRU): R3
• Technical Rescue Unit [Rope Rescue Unit] (TRU - RRP): R4
• Technical Rescue Unit [Animal Rescue Unit] (TRU - ARU): R5
• Technical Rescue Unit [General Purpose Vehicle] (TRU - GPV): R6/R7
• Inshore Rescue Boat (IrbT): B1/B2
• Incident Command & Control Unit (ICCU): C1
• Command Support Unit (CSU): C2
• Breathing Apparatus Support Unit (BASU): S1
• Operational Support Unit (OSU): S2
• Fire & Emergency Support Unit (FESU): S6
• Fire Investigation Support Unit (FISU): F1
• Co-Responder Vehicle (CRV): V1
• High Volume Pump (HVP): W2/W4
• Duty Service Van (DSV): N/A
• Hydrant Inspection Unit (HIU): N/A
• General Purpose Lorry (GPL): N/A
• Fleet Support Unit (FSU): N/A
• Logistical Support Unit (LSU): N/A
• General Staff Vehicles (GSV): N/A

CBRN Response:

• Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9

Urban Search & Rescue (USAR):

• Prime Mover (PM): T5/T6/T7/T8/T9

Pods:

• Module 1 - Technical Search Equipment
• Module 2 - Heavy Transport, Confined Space & Hot Cutting
• Module 3 - Breaching & Breaking Equipment
• Module 4 - Multi Purpose Vehicle
• Module 5 - Shoring Operations

Technical Rescue Personnel (TRU):

• Level 1 (FF) WF---
• Level 2 (CM) WC---
• Level 4 (WM) WW---
• Level 5 (SM) WS---

(The "---" represent three numbers which are unique to each firefighter)

They use these callsigns as well as vehicles as all TRU personnel take a vehicle of their choice (except the Unimog) at the end of their shift and then operate on from their homes and wherever they take the vehicles

Duty Officers Cars (DOCS):

• Level 1 (CM/WM): WC---/WW---
• Level 2 [FISU] (SM): WS---
• Level 3 (GM) WG---
• Level 4 (AM/BM) WA---/WB---

(The "---" represent three numbers which are unique to each officer)

Ranks

Link to ranks

See also

• Fire service in the United Kingdom
• Country Fire Service

External links

• Official website
• West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service unofficial website