Dorset Fire and Rescue Service is the former statutory Fire and Rescue Service for the area of Dorset, South West England.

Fire Brigades were nationalised during the Second World War and returned to the responsibility of County Councils on 1 April 1948.

On 1 April 1997, as a result of local government reorganisation, two new Unitary Authorities were created in the county of Dorset: Bournemouth Borough and the Borough of Poole.

[2] As part of the FiReControl project, Dorset Fire and Rescue's control room was planned to switch over to the regional control centre in Taunton.

Originally scheduled to take place in March 2010, the cutover date was revised to July 2011,[3] however the plan was scrapped in December 2010.