Roger Mardon fire service history - Enhanced Command Support Vehicles

Fire service historian and author

Roger Mardon

www.romar.org.uk

Nine enhanced command support vehicles (ECSVs) have been completed by AES of Manchester primarily to provide command and control facilities at New Dimension incidents. Fire & rescue services will, however, be able to use these vehicles at local incidents. The vehicles are based on the Iveco 65C17 Air Ride Daily van and delivery is being completed in 2008.

The new units support a crew of four and provide a driver’s cab, central communications and operating compartment, and an equipment stowage area. Landline and mobile telephone telephone systems are installed together with radio and satellite equipment to meet the requirements of Firelink, the intended new national wide-area radio system. The crew has access to on-board fax and e-mail facilities.

It is understood that ECSVs are being allocated as follows

Region	Fire & Rescue Service	Number of ECSVs
London		0
South East	Hampshire	1
South East	Kent	1
South West	Devon & Somerset	1
South West	Gloucestershire	1
East of England	Suffolk	1
East Midlands	Nottinghamshire	1
West Midlands	Hereford & Worcester	1
Yorkshire & Humberside	North Yorkshire	1
North East		0
North West	Cumbria	1
Wales		0

New Dimension

Incident response units

Prime movers

High volume pumping units

Urban search & rescue units

Disrobe and re-robe modules

DIM units

Enhanced command support vehicles