Scottish Fire Service College
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The Scottish Fire Service College, later known as the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service College Gullane (SFRS College Gullane), was a training facility located in East Lothian that operated from 1954 to 2015. A former hotel building, it was used for the initial training for new recruits from across Scotland and also for other specialist training. The facility at Gullane closed in 2015, shortly after the eight separate Scottish fire services merged in April 2013 to form the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS), and a new national specialist training centre opened in Cambuslang.
History
A railway hotel was built near to Gullane railway station and formally opened as the Marine Hotel on 28 June 1900. At the start of the Second World War the building was requisitioned and was used for training Polish soldiers. After the war it opened again as a hotel, but closed in 1951. In 1953 the building was sold to the Scottish Office, to provide a new location for The Scottish Fire Service Training Schools that had been based in Moredun, Paisley and in Whitburn, West Lothian.
The Scottish Fire Service Training School at Gullane was officially opened on 1 April 1954. The size of the facility grew over the years, eventually occupying seven buildings. In 2002 it was renamed the Scottish Fire Service College.
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