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  • International Women’s Day 2024
    8th March 2024
    International Women’s Day 2024

    International Women’s Day #InspireInclusion On 8th March every year, International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated across the globe, and this year’s campaign theme is #InspireInclusion. We are proud to support the values that guide IWD; promoting a gender-equal world, free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse and…

  • Working together to Protect our Countryside and our Country
    1st March 2024
    Working together to Protect our Countryside and our Country

    Operation Dawns Glaw, a multi-agency taskforce of specialist from key agencies across Wales has reformed to reduce, and where possible eliminate the impact of grass fires across Wales. The task force, which was initially established in 2016 to tackle incidents of deliberately set grass fires across Wales, will also be…

  • Ogmore Vale Fire Station
    1st March 2024
    Ogmore Vale Fire Station

    Ogmore Vale Fire and Rescue Station became the first Fire Station in the UK to achieve the Green Flag Community Award last year in recognition of its high environmental standards, cleanliness, safety and community involvement. Station Commander for Ogmore Vale, Mathew Bradford, said: “At the beginning of February, with the…

  • New Inn Fire Station Redevelopment Plan
    1st March 2024
    New Inn Fire Station Redevelopment Plan

    South Wales Fire and Rescue Service (SWFRS) is bringing forward plans to replace the existing New Inn Fire Station, in Pontypool, with an updated and sustainable Fire Station on its existing site. The current Station was built over 70 years ago, opening for the first time in 1952. The building…

  • Welcome to Team South Wales!
    23rd February 2024
    Welcome to Team South Wales!

    Congratulations to our latest On-Call recruits, who successfully completed their 2-week course at our Cardiff Gate Training and Development Centre earlier today. Group Manager Mark Kift, said:  “Congratulations to the on-call recruits at South Wales Fire and Rescue! Your commitment to serving the community and dedication to emergency response is…

  • Statement from the Commissioners for South Wales Fire and Rescue Service
    15th February 2024
    Statement from the Commissioners for South Wales Fire and Rescue Service

    Vij Randeniya, Commissioner for South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said: The decision of the Commissioners to seek a secondment into the role of Chief Fire Officer was to provide immediate capacity and experience during the current intervention at South Wales Fire and Rescue, and is common practice across both…

  • Appointment of Interim Chief Fire Officer
    9th February 2024
    Appointment of Interim Chief Fire Officer

    The Commissioners have agreed for the temporary secondment of Stuart Millington, to the position of Interim Chief Fire Officer of South Wales Fire and Rescue Service (SWFRS) with effect from 9.00am on Monday 12th February 2024. Stuart will be joining SWFRS on secondment from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service…

  • Service response to Welsh Government plenary session 6 February 2024
    6th February 2024
    Service response to Welsh Government plenary session 6 February 2024

    The Service acknowledges the Welsh Government statement in Plenary today and welcomes the scrutiny and direction that will be provided by the four appointed Commissioners – Baroness Debbie Wilcox, Kirsty Williams, Vijith Randeniya and Carl Foulkes. We would like to reassure the public and all staff that we would never…

  • South Wales Fire and Rescue Service Supports Register my Appliance Week
    23rd January 2024
    South Wales Fire and Rescue Service Supports Register my Appliance Week

    The ultimate way to care for appliances @ registermyappliance.org.uk More than 40 million large appliances in use in UK homes are unlikely to be registered with the manufacturers, rendering them extremely hard to trace if a safety repair is ever needed. South Wales Fire and Rescue Service is supporting Register…

  • Bridgend incident 200124
    20th January 2024
    Bridgend incident 200124

    Incident update 10:35 20 January 2024 South Wales Fire and Rescue Service (SWFRS), alongside South Wales Police and the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust Hazardous Area Response Team (HART), attended an incident at Bridgend Industrial Estate yesterday evening at approximately 20.30hrs. On arrival, crews were faced with a well-developed fire at…


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