72 MAUD

1 Pump Retained

 

Stations

 

? to 1973                               Station Road, MAUD.                                      Photo

26/7/1973                              Victoria Road, MAUD.                            `        Photo

 

 

Firemasters

1960

Sub Officer W. Ogston
1973 Sub Officer J. Christie

1986

Sub Officer M. T. Elrick (there in 1987)

2003 to 31/12/2008

Sub Officer Stuart Heron

1/1/2009 to

Temporary Watch Manager Mark Kindness

 

 

Appliances

1940? ARG764 Bedford/Gregory Uxbridge Limosine HrT

1980

YSA624

Dennis F36/Dennis

WrT

1990

GSS11V

Ford D1617/CFE

WrL

1992

G313MSA

Dodge G13c/Mountain Range

WrL

2000

L748KRS

Scania 93M-210/Emergency One

WrL
2007 SV07AFA MAN TGL 12-224/Emergency One (ISS body) WrT

 

 

Brigades

1940 to 1941

Auxiliary Fire Service

1941 to 1948

National Fire Service

1948 to 1975

North Eastern Fire Brigade

1975 to 2003

Grampian Fire Brigade
2003 to Grampian Fire and Rescue Service (name change only)
   

 

Notes

 

This unit now has members who are trained first responders for the Scottish Ambulance Service. they are paged out by fire control at the request of the ambulance control in Inverness. They also have a dedicated vehicle provided by the ambulance service. If it is a medical call they will go in the van but if for example called by us to an RTA they will go in the appliance as they would likely be called in there rescue capacity anyway. (April 2008)

First Responders when called out as such wear a Red tunic and leggings with a Red Rosenbauer HEROS-xtreme helmet.

 

The North Eastern Fire Area Administration Scheme Order, 1948

  Equipment Retained
  1 Towing Unit with Light Pump inside towing Major Pump 1 Leading Fireman
    9 Firemen

 

The North Eastern Fire Area Administration Scheme Order, 1952

  Equipment Retained
  1 Pump Appliance 2 Leading Firemen
    8 Firemen

 

New Maud fire station opened 

A £25,000 fire station was officially opened at Maud yesterday by Aberdeen county councillor Mr Peter Cook, vice-chairman of the North-east Fire Area Joint Board.
The building with its spacious drill yard at the rear and 50ft. drill tower is in sharp contrast to the firemen’s previous premises in an old shed at Middleton’s Mart in the village.
The new building is a self-contained unit of one floor and comprises an appliance room, muster room, watch room, lecture room with small kitchenette, toilet, showers and ancillary storage room.
Beneath the walled drill yard is an underground water tank and hose target capable of holding 500 gallons of water.

PUMP

Mr Cook said that in 1940, the first fire station was opened in Maud under the Auxilliary Fire Service.
The premises used then were in the council yard and their appliance was a 20h.p. Armstrong Siddeley car, which towed a light pump.
The opening of the Maud station meant that 28 new stations had been opened since the North-east Fire Area Joint Board were inaugurated in 1948, he added.
After the opening the firemen demonstrated some of their new equipment in the drill yard. 

<PHOTOS>
ABOVE: Aberdeen County Councillor Peter Cook presses the siren button to officially open Maud’s new fire station yesterday. Also on platform are (left to right) Firemaster John Donnachie, County Vice Convener Mr Alex Rennie, County Councillor J. A. Dingwall, Fordyce, and District Councilor Eric Simpson.
BELOW: Sub-Officer J. Christie and his men all set to answer their first call.
(Press and Journal, 27/7/1973.)

 

 

 

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