Emergency Services in Lancashire are responding to incidents together in a bid to reduce demand on the three services which tends to increase during high profile nights such as bonfire night.
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service (LFRS), Lancashire Constabulary and North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) are working together to provide a joint response in areas of Lancashire where they can assist collaboratively with incidents such as fires with casualties, road traffic collisions, assaults and medical emergencies where forced entry to a property is required.
A multi-agency vehicle will be used which will be crewed by trained Operational Commanders from Fire and Police, they will respond to incidents where the team can carry out a multi-agency scene assessment, determine the level of resources required, ensuring scene and responder safety and provide specialist support. The team is expected to deploy to any relevant incident where at least a dual service response is required.