Current status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 29 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the retained duty system fire stations in the Highland Council area currently have full staffing complements.
There are challenges in recruiting and retaining on-call firefighters in some rural areas of Scotland and there are currently no on-call fire stations in the Highland Council area with a full staffing complement. However, a full staffing complement is not required for an on-call fire appliance to be deployed because it can attend emergencies if there are 4 crew available at any given time. When an appliance is not available, a response will be provided from the next nearest available location.