Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Gullane Training School
The Scottish Fire Service Training School is administered by the Scottish Home and Health Department. It started at Moredun, Paisley and Whitburn, West Lothian in the 1940s and subsequently moved to Gullane in 1953 into the former Marine Hotel
The school was responsible for the training of all recruits into the Eleven Scottish Fire Brigades and also carried out training on specialised subjects for firemen and junior officers as well as certain industrial courses
The Scottish Fire Service Training School in Gullane was officially opened on the 1st of April 1954, replacing the SFSTS Moredun and Whitburn facilities which had been in use from the 1940s to 1953, and was in use from 1953 to 2002 as the SFS Training School and from 2002 to 2015 it was known as the SFSCollege
The College’s core business was the provision of development for trainee firefighters for the original eleven Scottish Fire Brigades, (Northern, North Eastern, Angus, Perth and Kinross, Fife, South Eastern, Western, Central, Lanarkshire, Glasgow and South Western)
That provision of basic skills, knowledge and understanding was augmented by further development in the areas of Road Traffic Accident Extrication Techniques and Instructor Development, Breathing Apparatus Instructor Development and more recently Urban Search & Rescue Tools Skills and Mass Decontamination Instructor Development