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

• Maintain a response capability across all operational stations through ongoing training and development. 
• Maintain our urban search and rescue and heavy rescue capability.
• Maintain our heavy rescue unit provision.
• Continue to deliver externally accredited road traffic collision instruction.
• Continue to deliver clinically governed trauma training.
• Continue to be an active member within the Kent Road Safety Partnership and share road safety messaging.
• Continue to deliver a wide range of prevention packages across educational settings and identified high risk groups.
• Continue to use intelligence to inform campaign activity.
• We hold technical information on specific vehicle types and construction that provides information around access points on vehicles.
• We are engaged at a national and international level to ensure we have all the latest information around alternative fuels and a member of KFRS senior management is the national fire service lead on alternative fuels.
• We work with partners such as National Highways to help with quick recovery and opening of roads.
• We learn from incidents and have debrief outcomes for several incidents involving alternatively fuelled vehicles.

• Respond to RTCs and vehicle fires in a manner that minimises the impact on life, the environment and infrastructure.
• Respond to RTCs and vehicle fires within the criteria of our key performance indicator.
• Continue to work effectively and efficiently in a collaborative way with other responding agencies utilising Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP).
• Utilise drone assets for effective situational awareness and to support fire investigation.
• 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).
• Targeted prevention activities post incident.

• Review our attendance time standards, allowing us to make better resourcing decisions.
• Redesign our workforce to be able to scale resources quickly according to demands.
• Develop digital mapping and analysis to inform risk areas and locations.
• Review strategic and tactical response to vehicle fires.
• Review command and control processes and adapt to respond to vehicle fires.
• Carry out technical and industry analysis and research relating to vehicle types and technology.
• Review our work with SECAMB to ensure best care for customers which reduces harm. 
• Review of operational policy and procedure – extrication, rescue, and firefighting - and the need for specialist responders, vehicles, and equipment. 
• Review the availability of realistic simulated drills for RTC response ensuring new vehicle technologies are available in training scenarios.
• Ensure fire control colleagues understand the risks associated, gather risk critical information, and can give customers key safety advice.
• Develop reviewed recovery arrangements and any impacts that may result in challenges to safe recovery of vehicles and longer impacts on the strategic road network

Incidents:

• Number people extricated from vehicles.
• Severity and types of injuries from RTCs.
• Number of times heavy rescue equipment is made up for/used. 
• Types of RTCs versus road types.
• Vehicle fires because of RTCs, involving alternative fuels.
• Profile of incidents against the RTC risk model.

• Fire Control Programme 
• Review of on call duty system project (276ROC)