It has been owned by Capita since February 2013, having previously been an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

[citation needed] The college has a wide range of facilities for theoretical education and practical training in firefighting, fire safety and accident and emergency work.

With the return to local authority control after World War II, the British government decided to standardise the way in which the fire service worked.

On 4 June 1966, they decided to do the same for the lower ranks and established the Fire Service Technical College at Moreton-in-Marsh on a disused RAF wartime airfield about 3 km (2 miles) outside the town.

[2] The Station also flew operations, and sent aircraft on the large bomber raids on the German cities of Cologne, Dresden and Hamburg.

[2] The first students whilst having most of the facilities seen today had no proper accommodation and were bunked in large huts (in the area that is now the cricket and football pitches), which originally housed the RAF personnel when it was an operational airbase.

[citation needed] The social and domestic facilities include The college site is also home to the Fire Protection Association (FPA).

[7] In 2003, the BBC used the location to film the docudrama The Day Britain Stopped about a series of catastrophic transport accidents.

In November 2016, the site was used by HTIS for an Airsoft Military Simulation event called Blue Fox II.