In the United Kingdom the use of retained firefighters (who are part-time, but are paid when on duty) rather than volunteers is standard. The Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, formed in 1884, is the only one of its kind remaining.[1] Nowadays the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade effectively functions as a retained fire station, except that its members provide their services unpaid.[2]
The Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade operates as a private fire brigade under a special contract with the fire authority and as such falls under the jurisdiction of the county chief fire officer, responding to calls as directed by the Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service.[3]Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service also operate two wholetime (Dogsthorpe and Stanground) and one retained (Thorney) fire station in Peterborough. The volunteer fire station, located on Bourges Boulevard, was built in the Brigade's centenary year. It aims to keep one full crew of six people on duty at all times.[4]
The brigade was formed in 1884,[6] by a group of businessmen after they believed the efforts of the City of Peterborough Fire Brigade, as it then was, had been ineffective following a serious fire at the infirmary (now Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery).[7]
The Fire Brigades Act 1938 formally constituted municipal boroughs (and urban and rural districts) as fire authorities, taking the responsibility away from insurance companies. During World War II, these fire brigades were combined into a National Fire Service. After the war, the government passed the Fire Services Act 1947, which transferred fire-fighting from the NFS to brigades maintained by county councils. The Soke of Peterborough Fire Brigade merged with Huntingdonshire Fire Brigade in 1965 and the Huntingdon and Peterborough Fire Brigade merged with Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Fire Brigade in 1974. Throughout these changes, the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade remained a separate entity.
To mark its centenary in 1984, the brigade received the council's highest accolade, the freedom of the city.[8]
^Walton, Jemma Meet Peterborough's Volunteer Fire Brigade team Peterborough Evening Telegraph, 26 July 2007
^Registered Charity No. 267667; see Annual Report and Statement of Accounts[permanent dead link] Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, 31 December 2007
^Peterborough Volunteer fire station 2 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (retrieved 6 April 2009)
^Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade: there for the city since 1884 Peterborough Evening Telegraph, 14 May 2009
^Borth Volunteer Fire Unit Borth Community Website, 27 February 2013
^"Peterborough Volunteers Fire Brigade". Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
^Brandon, David and Knight, John Peterborough Past: the City and the Soke (p.73) Chichester: Phillimore, 2001
^Baker, Eddie A History of Firefighting in Cambridgeshire (p.195) Huddersfield: Jeremy Mills Publishing, 2006
Bibliographyedit
Hillier, Richard Ready and Willing: A Centenary History of the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, 1884-1984 Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, 1984 (ISBN0950978515)
Wallington, Neil 110 Years of Fire and Rescue: A Celebration of the Work of Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, 1884-1984 Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, 1994 (ISBN0950978523)
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Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service
February 16, 2024
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