Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service is also the lead authority for National Resilience. Fire Control oversees the management and co-ordination for deploying various specialist capabilities and national resilience resources across England and Wales. The National Resilience program provides the ability for Fire & Rescue services to better handle significant incidents, including major incidents, natural disasters, and terrorist attacks.
The NR capabilities include Urban Search & Rescue (USAR), High Volume Pumping (HVP), Mass decontamination (MD), Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (explosion) CBRNe incidents, Detection Identification Monitoring (DIM), Command & Control Enhanced Logistics Support (ELS), Marauding Terrorist Attack Response (MTA) and Wildfire.
Training for performing these duties will be delivered towards the end of the apprenticeship program.