Welfare where the fire is, not where the road ends
Salt Wind Catering provides wildfire and open-ground incident welfare within 300 road miles of our Cornish kitchen — on-scene feeding for fire & rescue crews, multi-agency responders, local-authority civil contingencies teams and utility incident response. Moorland, gorse, cliff, forestry, standing crop. Wherever the pitch is, we bring the kitchen to it.
Our mobile kitchen is fully self-contained: own gas, own water tanks, own setup. Nothing needs running out to us and nothing needs to exist on-site before we get there. That is the difference that matters on an open-ground fire, because there is rarely a building, a supply or a hard standing anywhere near the incident.
Two ways to engage us. A seasonal standby contract holds capacity across a named risk window — a drought declaration, a heatwave, a dry spell — and activates in 60 to 90 minutes with rates locked before the season starts. Or a cold-start activation on a live incident: on the road within 2 to 4 hours across Cornwall, 3 to 5 hours into Devon, and an agreed window further out.
The area is the same one we publish for film and TV unit catering — 300 road miles from Redruth, taking in the whole South West and South Wales, the South Coast, the Thames Valley and Home Counties, London, and north to Birmingham and Leicester. A dry spell does not stop at the Tamar, and neither do we.
Procurement-side: net-30 accounts already in place with the NHS, Cornwall Council and National Grid. 5-star FSA hygiene rating, NCASS membership, HACCP-aligned procedures and full Public Liability Insurance, with documentation available before deployment.
See also: emergency response catering (storm, flood, highways, rail), blue-light catering Cornwall (police, fire, ambulance), welfare catering (planned contractor and utility welfare).
90min
Standby Activation
24/7
Operations Cover
5★
Hygiene Rating
net-30
Public Sector
What we feed fire crews
Fluids first — a continuous cold drinks and water station — then hot food that can be eaten fast and standing up in kit. Prices per head, VAT inclusive. Activation and multi-day rates are on the welfare page.
Extras & Add-Ons
from £1.75pp
- Flasks of tea & freshly brewed coffee
- Milk, sugar & stirrers
- Seasonal whole & sliced fresh fruit for the table
- Individual bottles of chilled orange or apple juice
- Individual pots with honey, granola & berries
- Individual bottled smoothies — berry, tropical or green
- Extra mini Danish pastries, muffins & flapjacks
Hot Breakfast
3 menus · from £4.45pp
- Cornish back bacon or butcher's sausage in a soft flour roll
- Ketchup & brown sauce
- Build-your-own bap: bacon, sausage, fried egg, hash brown
- Soft flour rolls
- Ketchup, brown sauce & mustard
- Veggie sausage & mushroom option (V)
- Bacon
- Sausages
- Scrambled eggs
- Hash browns
- Baked beans
- Grilled tomatoes
- Mushrooms
- Toast & butter
- Veggie sausages (V)
Why an open-ground fire is not a normal job
Four things change when the incident is a wildfire rather than a building, a road or a flood.
The pitch is never a venue
Moorland, gorse, cliff, standing crop, forestry. No building, no mains, no water. We arrive with our own gas, own tanks and own setup and work from wherever you tell us is safe.
Fluids before food
Long shifts in heat and full kit. A continuous cold drinks and water station runs alongside the hot line for as long as we are on-scene, not just at meal times.
The fire moves, so we move
Open-ground fires shift with the wind and the operational plan follows. Our setup packs down and repositions to a new RVP without needing anything reconnected.
Clusters, not single incidents
A dry spell produces fires in batches across a county, not one at a time. A standby contract holds capacity for the window rather than the individual call-out.
Net-30 public-sector procurement in place. Download the capability pack — FSA rating, NCASS, insurance schedules, accounts and service area. No form, no phone call.
300 road miles from the kitchen
The same service area we run for film and TV unit catering — because it is the same van, the same self-contained kit and the same roads. Based in Redruth, we cover any incident within 300 road miles: the whole South West and South Wales, the South Coast and Sussex, the Thames Valley and Home Counties, London, and as far north as Birmingham and Leicester.
Home ground first — West Penwith and the Lizard, the north coast, Bodmin Moor, the Tamar valley, Dartmoor and Exmoor. Beyond Cornwall and Devon, mobilisation time and travel are agreed per deployment before you commit.
England
Cornwall · Devon · Somerset · Dorset · Bristol & Bath · Wiltshire · Gloucestershire · Hampshire · Isle of Wight · Herefordshire · Worcestershire · Berkshire · West Sussex · Surrey · Oxfordshire · Warwickshire · Middlesex · West Midlands · Greater London · Buckinghamshire · Hertfordshire · Shropshire · Leicestershire · Northamptonshire · Staffordshire · Bedfordshire
Wales
Newport · Cardiff · Monmouthshire · Rhondda Cynon Taf · Vale of Glamorgan · Bridgend · Merthyr Tydfil · Powys · Neath Port Talbot · Swansea & Gower · Carmarthenshire · Ceredigion · Pembrokeshire
Kent west of Maidstone and East Sussex west of Brighton are inside the radius and quoted case by case. Every area above is backed by a measured road distance from TR15 2AE.
Wildfire & Incident Welfare Catering Across Cornwall & Devon
Salt Wind Catering provides wildfire and open-ground incident welfare within 300 road miles of Cornwall — fire & rescue, multi-agency crews, civil contingencies.
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