The Perth and Kinross Fire Area Administration Scheme Order, 1952

                Equipment                                                                                             Retained

                1 Pump Appliance                                                                                1 Leading Fireman
                                                                                                                                5 Firemen

Establishment 2000

                Equipment                                                                                             Retained

                1 Water Tender Ladder                                                                       1 Leading Firefighter
                                                                                                                                7 Firefighters
 

Unit founded 15th September 1948.

First Base in 1948 was in a shed at Kinloch House and the crew were members of the village. D Stewart was the plumber and his van was used. They received 10/- for every fire attended
Equipment Supplied – 2 x stirrup pumps, 2 buckets, sandbags, 1 x ladder
In 1950                   They moved to a shed beside the Bunrannoch Hotel (now burned down)
In 1951                   They got a trailer pump which was towed by a landrover from J & P Brown & Sons which also carried the crew.
In 1976                   they got their first petrol fire engine
In 1980                   purpose built fire station on the present ground at Bridgend
In 1997                   new station built
Wooden Hut for Trailer Pump (towed by garage Land Rover)

The construction of new stations at Kinloch Rannoch, Glenshee and Kirkmichael is now at a very advanced stage and it is anticipated that at the time of publication arrangements will have been made to commission the new premises.
Three Gamecock Karrier fire appliances have been refurbished and fitted with radios in preparation for the opening of the stations and, to ensure that the volunteer firemen are accustomed to the new style fire engines, a training programme has been initiated with the emphasis on driving and radio procedures.
(Firemaster's Annual Report 1977/78.)

In some villages in Scotland, part-time firemen are convinced that life was much easier a few hundred years ago: at least there were always horses around. Now they have to go begging people to let them borrow a lorry which could transport their pump to fires. A few years ago, men serving 150 square miles of countryside from the Kinloch Rannoch station (a wooden hut with a trailer pump) had a case that ran like the script of a Laurel and Hardy film. A fire was reported and while the men were getting together at ‘base’, the part-time fire-master phoned round for a lorry. The nearest he could locate was three miles away and the owner said ‘come and get it’. So firemen got a taxi to pick up the lorry. On the way back, the lorry ran out of petrol. A second taxi had to be called to go and collect some. The delay: half an hour. The damage: £30,000 - most of which could have been saved if they had had an old army-surplus jeep to pull the pump.
(Fire An International Report by Stephen Barlay. Page 261.)

There used to be an Appliance at RANNOCH SCHOOL.

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