Neil Boustred joined Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service in 1988 and was posted to Bletchley Fire Station. In 1996 he was posted to the Brigade Training and Development Centre as an instructor and spent four years instructing on all the brigade courses including the initial fire behaviour training based at the West Midlands Training Centre.
On leaving this department he spent the next five years as Watch Manager at Bletchley, Aylesbury and High Wycombe Fire Stations. He transferred into Brigade Headquarters to initiate the Urban Search and Rescue Department and is one of the National USAR Advisors. Before becoming Station Manager at Aylesbury on 1 June 2008 he was Station Manager at Beaconsfield.
Aylesbury's new state-of-the-art Fire Station opened in April 2005, and replaced the previous facility in Cambridge Street, which was in use for more than 30 years.
Aylesbury Fire Station provides full time fire cover for Aylesbury and the surrounding villages in co-ordination with part-time retained stations. Appliances from Aylesbury attend incidents as far apart as the county boundaries with Bedfordshire in the east to Oxfordshire in the west, and from the Whitchurch area in the north to the Princes Risborough area in the south. They also attend large incidents further afield as necessary.
The area is predominantly rural, with small clusters of industry and some very historic and valuable properties included, such as Waddesdon Manor. The road network is substantial and the station attends numerous road traffic accidents each year, these forming a large proportion of the operational response.
Community Safety now forms an increasingly large part of our daily routine, and new initiatives are constantly being sought with other agencies to help prevent fires, accidents and other risks to the community.
In September 2006, Aylesbury Fire Station took delivery of two new Scania Rescue Pumps. Click HERE to see a picture of them.