The Fire Service College is responsible for providing leadership, management and advanced operational training courses for senior fire officers from the UK and foreign fire authorities. It is located at Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire, England. It is an executive agency and comes under the authority of the Department for Communities and Local Government. Location within the British Isles. ... Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. ... The Department for Communities and Local Government is a United Kingdom government department. ...

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The college does not provide initial training for recruit firefighters’ this training is provided by fire authorities at local or regional training establishments. While Scotland has its own Fire Service College at Gullane^[1] near Edinburgh, many Scottish fire officers come to Moreton on the more specialist and senior ranking courses. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ...

History

Under the 1938 Fire Brigades Act, the UK Government set up a training centre^[2] at Saltdeane near Brighton in 1941, to train National Fire Service personnel. With the return to local authority control after World War II, the British government decided to standardise the way in which the fire service worked. The college at Saltdeane became too small and the Home Office opened the Senior Staff College at Wotton House, Dorking in Surrey in 1949, to train senior officers from all over the country. On 4 June 1966, they decided to do the same for the lower ranks and established the Fire Service College at Moreton. The College was built on a disused RAF wartime airfield about 3km outside the village of Moreton in Marsh. Brighton is located on the south coast of England, and together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton and Hove. ... The National Fire Service (NFS) was the single united countrywide fire service created in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The modern concept of Small Office and Home Office or SoHo , or Small or Home Office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers. ... Dorking is a market town at the foot of the North Downs approximately 25 miles south of London, in Surrey in England. ... This article is about the English county. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year (156th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... RAF is an three letter acronym for: Royal Air Force -- the Air Force of the United Kingdom (see also Air Ministry) Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) -- a German terror organisation Rigas Autobusu Fabrika -- a factory making buses in Riga, Latvia Rapid Action Force in India Računarski Fakultet RAF...

Moreton was, the home station of 21 Operational Training Unit, Bomber Command responsible for the training of aircrew to fly Wellington bombers. ^[2] The Station also flew operations, and sent aircraft on the large bomber raids on the German cities of Cologne, Dresden and Hamburg. The airbase remained operational until the late 1950s. The government then used the base to teach fire fighting to military personnel undergoing their National Service. Bomber Command is an organizational military unit, generally subordinate to the air force of a country. ... The Vickers Wellington was a twin-engine, medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey, by Vickers-Armstrongs Chief Designer, R.K. Pierson. ... , For other uses, see Cologne (disambiguation). ... Dresden (Sorbian: Drježdźany; etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Czech: ) is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... National service is a common name for compulsory or voluntary military service programs. ...

The Home Office opened the College on the 500 acre (2 km²) site in 1968. ^[2] The first students while having most of the facilities seen today had no proper accommodation and were bunked in large Nissan huts (in the area that is now the cricket and football pitches), which originally housed the RAF personnel when it was an operational airbase. The Staff College at Dorking was closed in 1981 and all training was transferred to Moreton.

In April 1992^[2], the college became an Executive Agency under the Fire Service Trading Fund Order 1992 (Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 640)^[3]. In June 2001, the responsibioity for the college transferred from the Home Office to the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and just one year later to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and then to the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Today. it has a wide range of facilities for theoretical education and practical training in fire fighting, fire safety and accident and emergency work.

Education

Educationally, the college boasts state of the art lecture facilities and specialised areas such as IT suites, a chemistry laboratory and hydraulics laboratory. The tutors are drawn from both the academic world and from officers serving in fire and rescue services around the country. Courses available range from junior officer development to senior officer management courses right up to Chief Officer level. To support the educational side, there as a large administration complex and a library of fire related literature. There is debate as to whether the college library or the library at the National Fire Protection Association in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA, is the largest in the world for fire related material. Students come mainly from the UK but several countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Gibraltar send students on a regular basis. Prior to the current troubles in various parts of the world, students from Iraq and Nigeria were a common sight at the college. The National Fire Protection Association (established 1896) is an independent, voluntary-membership, nonprofit (tax-exempt) organization. ... UAE redirects here; for other uses of that term, see UAE (disambiguation) The United Arab Emirates is an oil-rich country situated in the south-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain. ...

Operational training

Operational training is carried out in several purpose built areas^[2] of the college, these include

• Breathing apparatus complex
• Industrial complex’s
• Domestic property
• High rise property
• Areas for electrical, pool fire and fixed installation training
• Small-scale versions of petroleum and chemical installations
• A ship “Sir Henry”
• A railway, which includes a section of rail with locomotives and carriages of various types, both passenger and freight.
• A motorway (M96)
• USAR (Urban Search and Rescue)
• A range of civil and military aircraft including helicopters, military and passenger aircraft and a simulated Boeing 747
• Fire behaviour units

To support the operational training the college has a fully equipped appliance room with some 25 appliances from different manufacturers including pumps, aerial appliances, rescue tenders, USAR vehicles and hazmats appliances. There is also a large workshop to maintain the appliances and all the other operational equipment used. Motorway symbol in UK, France and Ireland. ... It has been suggested that USAR Teams be merged into this article or section. ...

The M96 motorway is a short stretch of road at the college which imitates in detail a typical UK motorway; it is used to teach firefighters in training how to deal with road traffic accidents. It consists of one of the former runways of the airfield. The numbering of the motorway is not consistent with the Great Britain road numbering scheme; however its number is largely irrelevant, as it is not open to the public. A car accident in Yate, near Bristol, England, in July 2004. ... The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering system used to classify and identify all major roads in Great Britain. ...

Social

The social and domestic facilities include

• Standard and deluxe accommodation for 600 students
• Television rooms and lounge areas
• A chapel
• The ’Four Shires’ Restaurant and bar complex
• Sports complex with a 25 x 9m swimming pool, 4 squash courts and gymnasium
• Several football and cricket pitches
• 2 Tennis Courts

Other uses

The college is also home to the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE)^[4] The Institution of Fire Engineers is a worldwide body that provides research, training, conferences and professional qualifications for firefighters and civilians who work in fields related to fire fighting, the science of fire fighting and prevention, and related technology. ...

The BBC used the location to film the docudrama The Day Britain Stopped about a series of catastrophic transport accidents. For the purposes of the program, the motorway was temporarily rebranded "M91". The Day Britain Stopped is a 2003 BBC drama documentary based around a fictional disaster - in which a train crash is the first in a chain of events that lead to a meltdown of the countrys transport system. ...

The college has been on occasions shut over weekends and used by the military and police for training, as the live fire buildings and complexes allow training in certain operational areas that cannot easily be carried out or reconstructed elsewhere.

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References

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External links

• Fire Service College: Official site
• Institution of Fire Engineers
• Scottish Fire Service College: Official site
• National Fire Protection Association, USA. Official site
• Pathetic Motorways - M96

Coordinates: 51.995° N 1.680° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...