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The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) is the statutory fire and rescue service for Northern Ireland. The NIFRS is overseen by the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board, which in turn is subordinate to the Department of Health. NIFRS has a workforce of around 2,230 personnel. [1]
The Belfast Fire Brigade came into existence in 1800, and until 1861 was managed jointly with the local police service. It then provided a dedicated firefighting service to the people of the city of Belfast until its amalgamation with the Northern Ireland Fire Authority on 1 October 1973, when it became the Fire Authority for Northern Ireland, today the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service ...
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said between 08:00 and 13:30 on Saturday, it received 85 calls in relation to flooding. Ten people were assisted from vehicles in flood water ...
His son, also John, was the Chief Fire Officer of the Northern Ireland Fire Brigade from 1996 to 2002. [ 11 ] in the 90s, Dennison Commercials, a local Volvo dealer that sold and maintained the appliances for the Newry Fire Station commissioned local artist, Cora Harrington to paint a set of 3 paintings to be displayed in the fire station ...
Fire and rescue crews in Northern Ireland recieved a total of 203 emergency calls on the first night of celebrations for the Twelfth of July. As hundreds of bonfires were lit across loyalist areas ...
Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) crews responded to a report of a blaze at 00:25 GMT on Saturday. Three appliances from Portadown, Lurgan and Armagh and an aerial appliance were ...
As in Great Britain, there were numerous local authority fire brigades in Northern Ireland until the Second World War. On 1 March 1942 all brigades were nationalised by the Fire Services (Emergency Provisions) (NI) Act 1942 as the National Fire Service (Northern Ireland). On 1 January 1948, the Fire Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1947 came ...
The Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 allows HMIC to perform inspection and assessment of services or projects by direction of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. At the request of the chief constable of the PSNI, in 2013 the inspectorate published a report into Northern Ireland's Historical Enquiries Team. [13]