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Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service serves a population of around 720,000 in the South East of England. The area stretches from the outskirts of London to the South Midlands. It comprises the four districts of Buckinghamshire – Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe – and Milton Keynes. Milton Keynes is the northernmost part of the area, bordering the East of England and the East Midlands. It is one of the fastestgrowing places in England. Since 1971, its population has more than trebled from 67,000 to around 234,000. During the same period, the population of the rest of Buckinghamshire has risen from 404,000 to around 484,000. Government plans for housing in the region could see more than 100,000 new homes built in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes over the next 30 years or so, with most of this development taking place in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury Vale. The urban infrastructure will have to be expanded to cope with this growth, and there will clearly be an increase in demand for fire safety education, community safety partnership working and emergency response. The major centres of population are the designated New City area of Milton Keynes 172,033 in the 2001 Census, High Wycombe 77,178, Aylesbury 69,021, Chesham 20,343 and Amersham 17,719. The area served by Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service includes stretches of the M1, M4, M25 and M40 motorways, a section of the West Coast Main Line, several miles of the River Thames, part of the Silverstone motor racing circuit and Chequers, the Prime Ministers country residence. Heathrow and Luton airports lie just outside the area. A large part of the south of Buckinghamshire falls within the Metropolitan Green Belt and the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Although many parts of Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes enjoy the affluence associated with the Home Counties, there are pockets of deprivation throughout the area. Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service receives around 20,000 calls for assistance every year, of which about 10,000 are emergency incidents. It has 42 frontline and specialist fire and rescue vehicles and four Urban Search and Rescue vehicles.

Address: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service, Stocklake, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP20 1BD
Telephone: 01296 744400
Fax: 01296 744600
Website: http://www.bucksfire.gov.uk/