I'm loving the idea that a private fire service owned and operated by the company is going to have anything like the training, resources, equipment and manpower available to it that say the public fire service has...
My local station has IIRC 2 engines, but can call on dozens/hundreds from the neighbouring towns and counties if needed including specialised stuff that costs and absolute fortune and might only see a handful of active uses a year.
Especially given accountants and management tend to not like the idea of "throwing money away" and typically will cut such things to the bone when they don't understand why you are paying millions a year for something you're not actively using (a lot of companies won't even pay to ensure their basic fire safety is up to scratch and need the threat of action to maintain stuff as simple as fire exits and fire doors).
About the closest thing we've got to real "private" fire services in the UK these days are the airport fire trucks, and they're are there because the insurance companies and government demand them, and a single incident can cost hundreds of millions and dozens of lives.
IIRC even then if there is an actual aircraft fire they still get assistance from the likes of the normal fire and other emergency services, because the airport response teams are primarily about pausing the fire long enough to get people out of the aircraft and to a safe distance, not even getting the injured out of the airport, or dealing with a major fire at the airport buildings.
Basically most of the remaining "private" fire services, at least in the UK tend to be very limited and specialised in scope, and there because it's been required by the government or insurance in some form
IIRC most of the old "private" fire services died out because it was realised it was much cheaper and effective for a communal service paid for by all and operated by a governing body, because it's much better to put out the fire at number 11A before it gets hold and threatens number 15.
Not to mention the old private fire services were often competing against each other, and the more "profitable" ones were fairly often found to have been "encouraging" local businesses and wealthy individuals to sign up because a fire can be really bad and "look at that storehouse it looks really flammable".
One interesting thing I heard the other day on a related note, apparently if you've got an old fire engine and you agree to keep it functional you can get free road tax, apparently the flip side of the coin is that in an emergency the fire service can requisition it if needed. I've not actually checked this one out myself, but it sounds very much like a holdover from the old civil defence plans, where in the event of say war having those old engines available and maintained by private owners would have been far more cost effective than storing and maintaining them at a government facility.
could have stayed on and taught internally.
