The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (NWFRS; ) is the fire and rescue service covering the principal areas of Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham in the north of Wales. With service coverage in north-west Wales being predominantly rural. The NWFRS is headquartered in St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales.
The service was created in 1996 by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 which reformed Welsh local government, by a merger of the previous Clwyd and Gwynedd fire services. It covers an area of with around 670,000 people. The Service employs over 1000 staff in operational and support roles.About Us From official website
The fire authority which administers the service is a joint board made up of councillors from Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham councils.
Appliances and Crewing 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 + NWFRS Stations Station Crewing Station Callsign Aberdyfi Retained WN05 Abergele Retained WN25 Abersoch Retained WN06 Amlwch Retained WN07 Bala Retained WN08 Bangor Day Crewed + Retained WN02 Barmouth Retained WN09 Beaumaris Retained WN10 Benllech Retained WN11 Betws y Coed Retained WN26 Blaenau Ffestiniog Retained WN12 Buckley Retained WN39 Caernarfon Day Crewed + Retained WN01 Cerrigydrudion Retained WN27 Chirk Retained WN40 Colwyn Bay Day Crewed + Retained WN23 Conwy Retained WN28 Corwen Retained WN29 Deeside Wholetime + Retained WN38 Denbigh Retained WN30 Dolgellau Day Crewed + Retained WN04 Flint Retained WN41 Harlech Retained WN13 Holyhead Day Crewed + Retained WN03 Holywell Retained WN42 Johnstown Retained WN43 Llanberis Retained WN14 Llandudno Day Crewed + Retained WN22 Llanfairfechan Retained WN31 Llangefni Retained WN15 Llangollen Retained WN32 Llanrwst Retained WN33 Menai Bridge Retained WN16 Mold Retained WN44 Nefyn Retained (Police & Fire Station) WN17 Porthmadog Day Crewed + Retained WN18 Prestatyn Retained WN34 Pwllheli Retained WN19 Rhosneigr Retained WN20 Rhyl Wholetime + Retained WN24 Ruthin Retained WN35 St Asaph Retained WN36 Tywyn Retained WN21 Wrexham Wholetime + Retained WN37
See also List of British firefighters killed in the line of duty North Wales Police
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