Strategic goal 3: We will respond immediately and effectively to emergency incidents

This goal focuses on our statutory duty to respond to emergencies.

Our key objectives for this year are:

• Respond to incidents within an average time of eight minutes.
• Evaluate the impact of Ashfield Fire Station returning to 24/7 crewing in November ’23.
• Consider recommendations identified within the Fire Cover Review, being undertaken as part of the development of our next CRMP (’25-’28)
• Successfully disaggregate from our current tri-service arrangement, ensuring no discernible impact on our communities because of doing so.

Our focus for improvements this year are:

• Implement our new Replacement Mobilising System in partnership with our colleagues in Joint Fire Control and Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service.
• Provide our crews with secondary & tertiary hardware devices to ensure they will always have access to risk information, at the right time, in the right place when responding to incidents.
• Provide our National Inter-Agency Liaison Officers (NILOs) with an additional airwave radio to improve their communications.
• Develop & improve the decontamination of firefighting equipment and PPE after firefighting.
• Provide NILOs and Station Managers with Body-worn Cameras to enable us to better learn from incidents.