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Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service
Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Canolbarth a Gorllewin Cymru (Welsh)
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Operational area
Country	Wales
Region	Mid & West Wales
Agency overview
Established	1996
Employees	1,400
Chief Fire Officer	Roger Thomas
Facilities and equipment
Stations	58
Website
	www.mawwfire.gov.uk

The Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service (Welsh: Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Canolbarth a Gorllewin Cymru) is the fire and rescue service covering the Welsh principal areas of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys and Swansea.

The service was created in 1996 by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 which reformed Welsh local government. It was created by a merger of the earlier Dyfed, Powys and West Glamorgan fire brigades.^[1]

The service is the largest by area in England and Wales,^[2] covering a predominantly rural area of 4,500 square miles (11,700 km²) and the third largest in the United Kingdom behind the Scottish and Northern Ireland fire services. It has 57 fire stations, and around 1,400 staff.

Since October 2017, the service has shared its control room with South Wales Fire and Rescue Service and South Wales Police at the police headquarters,^[3] an arrangement that is expected to save £1 million annually across both fire and rescue services.^[4]

The fire authority which administers the service is a joint-board, made up of councillors appointed from Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys and Swansea councils.

The service has a volunteer fire station (Borth Volunteer Fire Unit) under Ceredigion Command. It is one of only two fire units crewed by unpaid part-time volunteers in the UK, with the other being Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade.^[5]