Pontypandy Fire Service

Pontypandy Fire Service logo (2016-Present)

The Pontypandy Fire Service is a small Fire & Rescue service based within the valleys of South Wales. There are only two known stations: Firstly, Pontypandy: a medium-sized station serving the south half of the area which covers the coastal fishing village of Pontypandy and the surrounding forestry and countryside. Due to its location, Pontypandy hosts three other emergency services that are combined with the fire station as they are called out to incidents together oftenly or if there needed. They are: Ocean Rescue, Mountain Rescue & Paramedics.

Secondly, Newtown: a large station that covers the northern area which covers the town of Newtown and also serves as the fire service's base of operations and it often referred to as HQ.

Uniforms

Station wear - In some episodes up until series 5, their station wear consisted of a black jumper and grey trousers, but for most episodes up until Heroes of the Storm, they wore their turnout gear. In series 10, the firefighters wear blue polo shirts with the service logo embroiled and navy trousers. The Station Officers wear a white shirt and tie with a medal strip and insignia slide with one impeller.
Turnout gear - From 1987-1994, they wore black woollen tunics with brass buttons and yellow leggings and a cork helmet like every UK & Irish fire service did in those days. From 2003-2005, they wore the exact same but the tunic was blue and held an axe & torch. The helmets had a short visor screwed on. From 2008-2015, they still had the same tunics (with new reflective strips) and leggings but the axe & torch was removed and are now stowed in Jupiter. They also gained newer helmets with larger visors which were still out of todays fashion. Since 2015, they now wear an updated tunic which replaces the buttons with 3 magnetic clips and a small waterproof walkie-talkie, the insignia slide has also been removed. the leggings and the helmets remain the same. The Station officers helmet is white with 1 thin black band.
Chief Officer’s Uniform The Chief Officers Uniform consists of a blue tunic with brass buttons, a medal strip, red stitching around the insignia slide, blue trousers with red stitching & a visor cap. the helmet is white with 2 black bands (although it should be 1 thick band).
Ocean Rescue Uniform - From 2008-2012, they wore yellow wetsuits with orange life-jackets and an orange helmet. Since 2014, they now wear lava red wet-suits with yellow life jackets and red helmets.
Animal Rescue Uniform - From 2016-Onwards, the animal rescue uniforms consist of brown grey and yellow leggings and a tunic with the Animal Rescue logo Embroidered as well as a helmet with a neck protector.
Mountain Rescue Uniform - From 2017-Onwards, the Mountain Rescue Uniforms consist of yellow jackets with a walkie talkie which has the Search & Rescue logo embroidered, leggings with light deflectors and a helmet with a torchlight.

Stations

Newtown - Newtown Fire Station is the main HQ and largest station in the service. It is very little referenced in Fireman Sam, but it is mostly mentioned when the Pontypandy firefighters learn new skills there (e.g. winter rescue).
Pontypandy Railway Station - This is where Station Officer Steele & Chief Fire Officer Boyce were first based when the coal mines were still active, they would use the railway system on Bessie to attend to emergencies in the mountains and mines. Soon as the mines closed, they both promoted to their separate ways with Chief Fire Officer Boyce transferring to Newtown & Station Officer Steele to Pontypandy. Now with lots of visitors to the Mountain Activity Centre & the mines, the station is now in use again, "Just Like The Old Days".
Pontypandy - Originally built in 1938, Pontypandy Fire Station was no larger than an average retained fire station, only housing Jupiter and their skills were limited. Throughout the years, their skills and facilities have greatly improved such as having a larger garage built to house Venus and Jupiter permanently and completely rebuilding the interior of the fire station in order to have the entire ground floor with an office, a garage and a small kitchen on the top floor with a balcony outside. Since Heroes of the Storm, they now have a state-of-the-art fire station with many technological features and developing new skills such as amphibious and animal rescue capabilities.

As from Season 10 onwards, the Mountain and Ocean Rescue Centres are part of the fire service each with their unique fire service logo.

Vehicles

Pontypandy Fire Station

Jupiter (Aerial Ladder Combined Fire Engine) - Driven by Fireman Sam & Elvis Cridlington
Venus (Rescue Tender/Water Carrier) - Driven by Everyone in the station
Mercury (Quad Bike) - Ridden by Fireman Sam, Station Officer Steele, Elvis Cridlington & Penny Morris
Hydrus (Off Road Amphibious Rescue Vehicle) - Driven by Fireman Sam & Penny Morris
Phoenix (Multi-Purpose 4X4) - Driven by Ellie Phillips, Penny Morris, Arnold McKinley & Fireman Sam (sticker only)
Mobile Command Unit (Used when the station was being rebuilt) - Driven by Fireman Sam & Station Officer Steele

Newtown Fire Station

Rapid Response Fire Unit - (Fire Engine)
Mobile Command Unit (Base of operations for large - scale incidents or events)
Venus (Originally) (rescue tender)

Pontypandy Mountain Rescue Centre

Wallaby 1 & 2 (Mountain Rescue Helicopters) - Piloted by Tom Thomas
Mountain Rescue 4x4 (Off-road rescue 4x4) - Driven by Tom Thomas
Mountain Rescue Ambulance (Off-road rescue 4x4) - Driven by Nurse Flood & Ellie Phillips

Pontypandy Ocean Rescue Centre

Neptune (Inflatable rescue boat) - Driven by Penny Morris, Fireman Sam, Ben Hooper & Elvis Cridlington
Titan (Firefighting Boat) - Driven by Ben Hooper & Penny Morris
Juno (Rescue Jet Ski) - Driven by Fireman Sam

Railway Rescues

Bessie (Heritage Fire Engine) - Driven by Station Officer Steele, Fireman Sam, Penny Morris & Ellie Phillips

Paramedics

Nurse Flood's Car (Ambulance) - Driven by Nurse Flood
Mountain Rescue Ambulance - Driven by Nurse Flood & Ellie Phillips

Pontypandy Firefighters

Norris Steele - Station Officer
Sam Jones - Firefighter
Elvis Cridlington - Firefighter
Penny Morris - Firefighter (Part-time in Series 3 and 4/Full-time since Series 5)
Arnold McKinley - Firefighter (Since Heroes of the Storm)
Ellie Phillips - Firefighter (Since Heroes of the Storm)
Chief Fire Officer Boyce (Formerly and various visits since The Great Fire of Pontypandy)
Jerry Lee Cridlington - Firefighter (Fills in for absences)
Trevor Evans - Volunteer firefighter (Former auxiliary fireman in the original series)
Dilys Price - Volunteer firefighter
Helen Flood - Volunteer firefighter
Mike Flood - Volunteer firefighter
Charlie Jones - Volunteer firefighter
Bronwyn Jones - Volunteer firefighter