Questions and answers

1. Question

Is your national and local Fire and Rescue Service a State or Municipal Service?

• London Fire Brigade – metropolitan
• United Kingdom – metropolitan/non-metropolitan, private, nuclear
• Sweden – municipal, private organisations - nuclear, airport
• Norway – municipal and private organisations
• Denmark – municipal and private organisations
• Slovenia – municipal, private organisations, airport
• Austria – municipal, private organizations, airport

2. Question

How many operational women firefighters do you have in your Fire and Rescue Service (State or municipal)?

• London Fire Brigade, UK – 327 – 6.87%

3. Question

How many operational women firefighters do you have in your country? How many chiefs do you have?

• Sweden: 194 full time – 3.9%, 616 part time – 5.8%, 5 Fire Chiefs
• Finland: volunteer -10%,
• England: 1,262 whole time -4.99%, 525 retained duty – 5.5%. One Chief Fire Officer (two from 1 January 2017)
• Slovenia: 3 full time – 0.4%, 12,000 volunteer – approximately 15%
• Austria:19,672 – 6% (2015)
• Norway: 4 full time Fire Chiefs

4. Question

Do you have volunteer Fire and Rescue Services? State whether you have a Brigade/Station/Fire Department/Fire and Rescue Service and what they comprise?

• UK – none
• Slovenia – 1,300 fire stations, 15 professional Fire Brigades (stations)
• Norway – none
• Sweden – yes
• Austria – 4,503 fire stations volunteer, 314 Works Fire Brigades, 6 Professional Fire Brigades
• Finland – 709 fire department 491 volunteers, 200 part time, 18 industrial fire brigades. Full time 112.