Luton began operating an independent brigade when it became a county borough in 1964.

The brigade changed to its current name in 2012, three years after the administrative county was abolished and divided into two unitary authorities.

[3] The control room was kept within the service and has now been confirmed as the first fire service in the UK to be implementing a cloud based mobilising solution and integrated CAD system by Motorola in mid 2021.

Every fire and rescue service in England and Wales is periodically subjected to a statutory inspection by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS).

On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service was rated as follows: Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service operates 14 fire stations, of which five are crewed on 24-hour shifts (wholetime), one day crewed (Monday–Friday, 09:00–18:00) and the remainder are crewed by retained firefighters who live near to their fire station and can arrive there within six minutes of a call-out.