NAMED MODELSpecial · FireSpecial · RescueUnited Kingdom
Falkland Islands Fire & Rescue.
Land Rover Defender 130 light rescue appliance of the Falkland Islands Fire & Rescue Service, run as 'Rescue 1' (fleet number F1946) from Stanley as the islands' first-response road traffic collision vehicle.
BASE VEHICLEDefender 130 Hi-CapBUILT BYLand RoverIN SERVICE2000–09OPERATED INFalkland IslandsLAYOUT4 wheels
The record
The Falkland Islands Fire & Rescue Service is the Falkland Islands Government's emergency fire service, operating from Stanley with a handful of full-time officers and a retained crew of volunteers. Covering a territory of rough camp tracks, peat and stone runs where conventional fire appliances cannot follow, the service has always leaned heavily on Land Rovers, and its front-line fleet mixes full-size Scania and Sabre appliances with 4x4 Defenders and even a tracked Hagglunds BV206.
Rescue 1, fleet number F1946, is a Defender 130 crew cab fitted with a bespoke box rescue body with roller-shutter lockers, a roof gantry carrying a light mast, ladder and equipment stowage, and a front-mounted winch. It is the service's dedicated first-response vehicle for road traffic collisions, carrying hydraulic extraction (cutting and spreading) equipment, and wears the service's fire-red livery with a yellow waist stripe, rear chevrons and the Falkland Islands Fire & Rescue Service crest. Photographs from 2009 show it then a fairly recent addition to the fleet, parked at the Stanley fire station alongside the service's older Land Rovers.
The service also runs a second Land Rover appliance - the older F1512 'Firefly', a 130 with a 440-litre water tank - and issues each full-time officer a winch-equipped 'fire Land Rover' as a first-response unit, making the type central to firefighting on the islands to this day.
Specification
MANUFACTURERLand Rover
MANUFACTURED2000s build; photographed in service from 2009
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Variants & colours
Factory colours
Fire Engine Red
Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.
Imagery
No published image yetA rendering impression or a free-licence photograph will appear here once one is published — the sources below link to photographs elsewhere
Where it was
FK Falkland Islands2005–2026 · Falkland Islands Fire & Rescue Service, Rescue 1
BasedStanley fire stationFalkland Islands · 2005–2026-51.69, -57.86
6User references: https://live.staticflickr.com/4021/4272053467_1a129aa305_b.jpg and https://live.staticflickr.com/2592/3683206715_f6f3f34862_b.jpg — F 1946.REFERENCE