“Research-led, Data-Driven Insights for Optimal On-call Performance.”
Empower Fire & Rescue Services with evidence-based insights & real-world experience to cut-through the complexities of the On-call, volunteer, and non-career firefighter landscape, optimise resources and maximise fire engine availability.
Our Mission
On-call, non-career, and volunteer firefighters are an invaluable, precious-yet-predominant, ever diminishing asset. Within an uncertain and unfavourable backdrop for recruitment and retention re-enkindle augments Fire and Rescue Services capacity to apply contemporary research and data-driven approaches to enhance their effectiveness, efficiency, and people.
Our Insights
Our insights emanate from the unique combination of academic acumen, fire service research expertise, and operational On-call experience. This allows us to see what others might miss and to provide solutions that are both innovative and grounded in proven success.
Research-led and data-driven
Tried-and-tested in several FRSs, every step is rooted in experience, expertise, and refined by research.
Conversations with clarity and concision
We understand each Service can be different. We listen to your specific context, challenges and aspirations, then we deliver - distilling complex into simple, effective, evidence-based strategies. Let us Listen to you.
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Together we are tackling the perennial problems On-call fire engine availability, recruitment, retention, & optimizing resources. Don’t just take our word for it, take a look.
Research & Featured Articles
On-call, non-career, and volunteer firefighters are a precious, predominant yet ever-diminishing asset for many fire and rescue services. Against an unfavourable backdrop for recruitment this blog post discusses what the challenges involve, what lay ahead, and what we can do using fire service research, data, and expertise to support the sector with viable solutions which surmount these challenges.
Is fire engine availability a reliable and useful measure of a fire and rescue service’s performance? What does our fire and rescue service research tell us?
How fire service research and data solutions can support fire and rescue services amidst an On-call firefighter retention crisis
This article highlights that across the world firefighters referred to as on-call, volunteer, non-career, or sometimes part-time may be afforded different names but invariably they are very similar: nominally paid, alerted to a fire station by a pager/app, and available when needed. They are also increasingly becoming the predominant resource used across the world.
One of our Fire and Rescue Service Research based, Data Solutions: calculating the Widest Possible Pool of recruits at On-call stations which can only recruit from a pool of people living or working within 5 minutes of the local station & can only diversify according to local demographics….
Read our recent article published in FIRE magazine where we joined forces with Fire Service Rota to explain how to create flexibility for On-call firefighters
