Strathclyde Fire & Rescue

strathclyde fire & rescue is the second largest fire and rescue service in the united kingdom, and one of the largest in europe. sfr serves a population of about 2.3 million people across a 14,000 square kilometre area that ranges from rural and island communities to scotland's largest city, glasgow. the service is administered by the board of strathclyde fire & rescue whose members are drawn from the 12 unitary authorities that make up strathclyde. on 30 september 2005, the structure of strathclyde fire & rescue was changed from four commands to ten areas to enable a closer working relations with local authorities and other partner organisations such as the police and health service. sfr employs 2,196 wholetime, 630 retained, 301 volunteer, 70 operations support and 520 support staff. the firefighters are based at 113 strategically sited fire stations as far flung as appin in argyll to the north, biggar in south lanarkshire to the east, colmonell in south ayrshire to the south, and ba