Lyon at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Headquarters - revised

On the 5th July, the Lord Lyon paid a visit to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Headquarters at Cambuslang. He was welcomed and held a meeting with the Chief Fire Officer, Martin Blunden. The arms and badge were granted in 1949 with, it seems, the intention that the then local areas would impale their own arms as did the Central Fire Area the following year.

Tayside on the other hand simply used the national badge and placed Tayside in the text:

Fife which, I am told, was the first Fire and Rescue Service in Scotland, instead of impaling places the crest of the Duke of Fife in the centre above the "pile barry wavy Argent and Azure a lowe of flames Gules":

Here again is the crest used by the Duke of Fife:

Here is the blazon of the Matriculation of Arms for the Fife Fire and Rescue Service of 1985:

Or, on a pile Argent in base three barrulets wavy Azure surmounted of a lowe of flames Gules, in chief a knight armed at all points on a horse at full speed, in his dexter hand a sword erect all Proper, his surcoat Argent, on his sinister arm a shield Or charged with a lion rampant Gules, the visor of his helmet shut, over which on a wreath of his liveries with a mantling Gules doubled Or is set a lion rampant issuing out of the wreath Gules, the caparisons of the horse of the Last fimbriated Or and thereon six shields of the Last each charged with a lion rampant Gules, all between two thistles slipped Vert flowered Purpure; which Arms are to be borne as the Fife Fire and Rescue Service.