Command Unit

Fire Rescue Unit

A Fire Rescue Unit (FRU) is a special type of rescue vehicle used by the London Fire Brigade. The FRUs are equipped with heavy lifting, winching, cutting and pulling tools, floodlighting, longer duration breathing apparatus (vital for rescuing people from tunnels deep underground) and portable generators and other specialized equipment.

FRU crews are specially trained and equipped to handle complex rescues, including those from road and rail accidents, water, mud and ice, urban search and rescue incidents such as collapsed buildings, chemical spills and difficult rescues at height.

Nine of the Brigade’s existing fleet of Fire Rescue units were successfully mobilized to the London bombings of 7 July 2005 and since then the LFB has upped its number of FRUs from 10 (including one reserve) to 16.

A Fire Brigade Command Unit, or Command Support Unit, will be summoned to any incident that has more than four fire crews on scene and is a vehicle from which senior officers can control the incident, and have the latest computer and radio technology fitted to allow them to do this, including two large plasma screens (one inside,

one outside) for viewing footage or CCTV of the ongoing situation with a 6m mast and generator.

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