“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.
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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.
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…
…emanate from the unique combination of academic acumen, fire service research expertise, and operational On-call experience.
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.
Research & Featured Articles
OARS mentioned in Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service latest HMI inspection and the state of Fire Annual Assessment 2025 as Positive Practice for improving On-call firefighter availability.
OARS feature in FIRE - More and more fire and rescue services are using OARS to improve On-call availability and Overcome On-call challenges with data-driven solutions.
With FIRE’s focus on Innovation and Technology we are proud to announce they feature OARS owing to its impact and use in more and more fire and rescue services to improve On-call availability
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
