Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service

Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service. Making Derbyshire a safer place to live, work and visit. Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service (DFRS) provides a wide range of services, often in partnership and collaboration with others, to the people who live, work and visit the county and aim to achieve excellence in all that we do. The Service is required to assess the risks to the communities of Derbyshire and to plan for emergencies accordingly. The Service is available to respond to calls across Derbyshire every minute of every day and work hard to reduce the risks of fires, road traffic collisions and other emergency incidents across the county through our prevention activities. The work of the Service is split into three main categories; prevention, protection and response. DFRS covers over 1,000 square miles, which includes a variety of urban and rural communities with a population of approximately 780,000. However, we are also required to plan for and attend emergencies across the borde...