Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service


The Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is the fire service serving the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is known as an on-call fire service with whole-time support.
Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters is in Kidlington, Oxford, Oxfordshire. This is also the location of the fire service workshops. Oxfordshires control room is now based at Reading, as part of the Thames Valley Fire Control Centre, in partnership with Royal Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue services. Kidlington's control room now acts as a backup/secondary control in the event of a failure at Reading.
The current chief fire officer is Rob MacDougal.

Fire stations/appliances

The Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service currently operates out of 25 fire stations, three of which are crewed on a wholetime 24-hour basis with retained on-call back-up, four stations are day-crewed/retained, and 25 are crewed solely by retained on-call firefighters.
Station CallsignStation NameDuty SystemAppliances
JX01BanburyWholetime/On-Call2x Pumps, 2X HVP, 1x 4x4 Pickup Truck
JX02Hook NortonOn-call1x Pump
JX03Chipping NortonOn-call2x Pump
JX04CharlburyOn-call1x Pump
JX05WoodstockOn-call1x Pump, 1x ICU
JX06KidlingtonDay Crewed/On-call2x Pump, 1x RT
JX07BicesterOn-call2x Pump, 1x DIM
JX08DeddingtonOn-call1x Pump
JX09EnyshamOn-call1x Pump, 1x ISU,
JX10WitneyOn-call2x Pump
JX11BurfordOn-call1x Pump, 1x 4x4 Pickup Truck
JX12BamptonOn-call1 x Pump
JX14CartertonOn-call1x Pump
JX21Rewley RoadWholetime/On-call3x Pumps, 1x ALP
JX22AbingdonDay Crewed/On-call2x Pump, 1x 4x4
JX23FaringdonOn-call1x Pump
JX24WantageOn-call1x Pump, 1x 4x4
JX25GoringOn-call1x Pump
JX26Henley on ThamesOn-call1x Pump
JX27ThameOn-call2x Pump
JX28WheatleyOn-call1x Pump, 1x WrC
JX29WatlingtonOn-call1x Pump
JX30Slade ParkWholetime/On-call, Driving and incident command development class base2x Pump, 1 x Welfare Unit
JX31WallingfordOn-call1x Pump
JX32DidcotDay Crewed/On-call2x Pump, 1x Hazmat unit

Fire appliance glossary/callsigns