Kent Fire and Rescue Service
Creating a safer future – together: Our delivery plan 2025 to 2029

• Work with landowners, partner agencies and communities to better manage green spaces, reducing the risk of fires spreading to homes and other buildings.
• Provide additional wildfire training and equipment to our operational colleagues.
• Continue to invest in specialist vehicles designed to help with firefighting in locations that are difficult to access.
• Continue to develop our national wildfire tactical advisors through local, national, and international support.
• Engage with partners and land and property owners to inform, educate, and subsequently mitigate the impact wildfire has on communities through the national Firewise initiative.
• Continue to use intelligence to inform campaign activity.
• Maintain our range of 4x4 capabilities to ensure we can move resources in the event of snow and ice.
• Maintain specialist wildfire response teams at strategic locations.

• Deploy specialist wildfire resources to assist in the management of wildfire incidents.
• Deploy wildfire tactical advisors to assist in the co-ordination of wildfire incidents.
• Utilise drone assets for reconnaissance and situational awareness during weather related incidents.
• Use operational learning process to gather service-wide and multi-agency learning post incident.
• Report areas of notable practice or learning via national or collaborative bodies (national operational learning and joint organisational learning).
• Work with partner agencies during the emergency and recovery phase.
• Effective investigatory work into the cause of fire which subsequently feeds into national wildfire databases.
• Targeted prevention activities post incident.
• Utilise or support existing mutual aid arrangements.
• Provide business support to ensure safe re-opening of businesses during and post wildfire events.

• Review our attendance time standards to take account of seasonal demand and rurality, allowing us to make better resourcing decisions.
• Redesign our workforce to be able to scale resources quickly according to seasonal demands.
• Ensure we have sufficient vehicles and equipment to meet peak demands flexibly.
• Develop digital mapping and analysis to inform risk areas.
• Review strategic and tactical response to extreme weather events.
• Review command and control processes and adapt to respond to weather-related incidents and wider impacts. 

Flexibility of resources:

• Number of times fire engine availability falls below our desired availability.
• Average attendance time to incidents during periods of high demand, particularly during severe weather events.
• Number of times strategic reserve is implemented.
• Number of people/times recall to duty is initiated.
• Overtime claims.

Workforce measures:

• Number of unmatched hours.
• On call fire engine availability.

Efficiency measures:

• Percentage of time off the run for crew welfare and PPE.

Environmental:

• Number of times and duration spent in spate conditions.
• Severe Weather Advisory Group meetings initiated/weather warnings of amber and above.

• Review of on call duty system project (276ROC)
• ID No. 2 – Wildfires are a direct result of extreme weather events