West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
Operational area
Country  England
County West Yorkshire
Agency overview
Established 1974 (1974)
Employees 1,915
Facilities and equipment
Stations 48
Website
Official website

The West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service is the county-wide, statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, England. It is administered by a joint authority of 22 people who are appointed annually from the five metropolitan boroughs of West Yorkshire, known as the Fire and Rescue Authority.

West Yorkshire covers an area of approximately 800 square miles (2,100 km2) which includes remote moorland, rural villages, large towns and cities as well as Leeds Bradford International Airport.[1] The fire and rescue service's headquarters are located at Oakroyd Hall, Bradford Road, Birkenshaw, Bradford. There is also a large training centre at Birkenshaw used by other authorities besides West Yorkshire.

History

Rover 200 being used for Fire training at Wetherby Fire Station in 2015.

The brigade was formed in 1974 when the unitary county of West Yorkshire was created and was an amalgamation of smaller forces across the county.

Fire stations

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service operates 48 fire stations, of which 32 are crewed day and night (wholetime), two are day crewed (Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 18:00) and the remainder are crewed by retained firefighters who live near to their fire station and can arrive there within five minutes of a call being received.[2]

Wholetime

Leeds

Kirkstall Road fire station
Wetherby fire station

Bradford

Calderdale

Halifax fire station

Kirklees

Wakefield

Day crewed

Retained

Otley fire station

Station closures

Stanks fire station at Swarcliffe (closed 2015)
Gipton fire station (closed 2015)
Killingbeck fire station (seen under construction) opened in 2015 to replace Stanks and Gipton

In recent years the service has sought to rationalise its stations. In 2013, Marsden fire station was closed, while in 2015 Gipton and Stanks fire stations in East Leeds were replaced with a single fire station between the two sites at Killingbeck.

In the same year, Batley and Dewsbury's fire stations were merged into a single site in Dewsbury and Brighouse and Elland fire stations were also amalgamated into one fire station in Rastrick that is nearer to the M62.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". www.westyorksfire.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  2. ↑ "Stations". www.westyorksfire.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  3. ↑ "Bingley - West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service". West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Fairweather Green - West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service". West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  5. ↑ Cooper, Louise (25 August 2015). "New purpose-built fire station 'goes live' in Dewsbury". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
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