[[Image:LFB Pump Ladder.jpg|thumb|A fire engine of the [[London Fire Brigade]], the second-largest service in the country after the [[Scottish Fire and Rescue Service]]]]
[[Image:Merseyside Fire and Rescue on STanley STreet, Liverpool.jpg|thumb|[[Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service]] in action]]
The '''Fire & Rescuefire Servicesservices in the United Kingdom''' operate under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in [[England and Wales]], [[Northern Ireland]], and [[Scotland]].However such arrangements are largely identical.
FireEmergency cover is provided by over fifty statutoryagencies. FireThese &are Rescueofficially known Authoritiesas a '''fire and rescue service''' (FRS) which is the term used in modern legislation and by government departments.<ref>[http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1123799 Department for Communities and Local Government: Fire and Resilience (accessed 08 Dec 06)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904180924/http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1123799 |date=4 September 2006 }}</ref> The older terms of ''fire brigade'' and ''fire service'' survive in informal usage and in the names of a few organisations. England and Wales (and formerly Scotland) have local fire services which are each overseen by a [[fire authority]], which is made up of representatives of local governments. Fire authorities have the power to raise a [[Council Tax]] levy for funding, with the remainder coming from the government. Scotland and Northern Ireland have centralised fire services, and so their authorities are effectively committees of the devolved parliaments. The total budget for fire services in 2014-15 was £2.9 billion.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/446716/50600_PESA_2015_PRINT.pdf |title=UK Government spending |page=69}}</ref>
Central government maintains national standards and a body of independent advisers through the [[Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser]], which was created in 2007, while [[Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services]] provides direct oversight. The devolved government in Scotland has a similar agency, [[HMFSI Scotland]].
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====Civil nuclear====
All[[Sellafield]] and some other [[nuclear power station]] operators have their own fire & rescue services on-site which is a legal requirement under the Energy Act and Nuclear Site Licensefire Conditionsservice.
