Any final proposal for a delegation of power from the Fire Authority to the Chief Fire Officer (CFO) would be clearly defined in any future recommendation.
A theoretical example of how this might work is if an On-Call station does not have sufficient staff to crew a traditional fire engine. In that situation, the CFO could temporarily move the fire engine elsewhere and replace it with a specialist vehicle that only requires two firefighters to crew. This ensures the station can still provide an operational response rather than having no cover at all.
During this temporary arrangement, the Service would continue to recruit at the station with the aim of restoring a full crew for a traditional fire engine in the future.