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Overview

The Watch Manager has overall responsibility for the Below are the Officers in charge of this station. station. The fire station houses: three firefighting appliances; a Rescue Tender; a Water Carrier; an Incident Support Unit and an aerial platform. The station is crewed by wholetime and on call (retained duty system) staff. Each wholetime watch consists of: 7 personnel; one Watch Manager; one Crew Manager and five fire fighters. The on call section consists of: twenty four personnel; one Watch Manager; three Watch Manager Watch Manager Watch Manager Crew Managers and twenty fire fighters. Steve George Chris Higgins John Trott Blue Watch Green Watch On call

The station area is home to a range of risks, including This plan presents the risks in your area and a civil aviation airfield, Augusta Westland’s aerospace the actions that Devon & Somerset Fire & industry, the Royal Naval Air Station, major ‘A’ roads Rescue Service (DSFRS) will take to make the into and out of the town, and the main rail link community safer. Our actions are a mix of between London and the South West of England.

activities based on prevention, protection and Other risks include several retail parks, leisure Watch Manager Watch Manager emergency response, all undertaken by the facilities, several residential care premises and the Neil Giddings Ian Balfour people that are best suited for each activity. main district hospital. The local Authority areas served Red Watch White Watch

are Somerset County Council & South Somerset

Yeovil Fire Station is located on Reckleford in Yeovil, District Council. Outside of the town, the station

and covers the town of Yeovil and surrounding ground also covers an extensive area of open fields, communities and part of Somerset County Council. It agricultural properties, thatched roof properties and To discuss the content of this plan with a covers an area of 145.87 square kilometres and a woodland areas, which themselves can cause member of the fire service, please use the population of 59034 people. Within the stations area significant risks. contact details below: are 26159 domestic and commercial properties. The station covers several council wards including Ilchester, Name: Somerset East Admin Office Milborne Port, Brympton, Camelot, Coker, St Michaels, Number: 01935 382000 Yeovil East, Yeovil Central, Yeovil Without, Yeovil Email: [email protected] South and Yeovil West. For more information please visit www.dsfire.gov.uk/yoursafety

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Our Response

The map opposite shows an estimate of how long the fire engine will take to reach residents in Yeovil from the time they make the call. It will naturally take us longer to get places further away from the station.

Residents of Yeovil should take the following precautions to help keep them safe from fire:

 Fit a working smoke alarm  Take care when cooking and never leave cooking food unattended  Plan and practise your escape route  Make a bedtime check  Don't overload your electrics  Put cigarettes right out  Use candles carefully  Have your chimney swept regularly

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Prevention and Protection

We maintain a very simple philosophy that prevention is better than cure and we recognise that risk reduction begins with safe behaviours at home, at work, or on the road, and this leads to a safer society for all. We have developed a community safety strategy to focus our work and set our levels of resourcing where we have most risk. Using our knowledge, along with that of local organisations and partners we will target those people and properties that are more likely to be affected by fire and other emergencies, according to our risk analysis and risk profiling. The risks identified at Yeovil station have been identified below, our prevention and protection work will be prioritised accordingly.

Youth Health Dwelling Business Road Community Water Development & Heritage Fires Safety Safety Resilience Safety & Community Wellbeing Cohesion

Risk Key

VERY HIGH HIGH MEDIUM LOW VERY LOW

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Yeovil One Team Yeovil Fire Station are members of the Yeovil One Team that meets weekly. The Yeovil One Team is a multi-agency integrated model for a combined neighbourhood service delivery that covers Yeovil town centre. The Yeovil One Team meets to share intelligence and knowledge across partner agencies including the Police, South Somerset District Council, NHS, Social Housing Organisations and a variety of outreach service providers with the aim to tackle and reduce anti-social behaviour, depravation and build local community resilience. Through our membership of the Yeovil One Team we are able to reduce the risk within Yeovil, make the community safer and with our partners support vulnerable members of the community. The group has been so successful that it is being expanded geographically to address these same issues outside of the town centre area. Additionally Yeovil Fire Station has recently taken the role of hosting the weekly meetings.

Partnership Based Joint Safety Initiatives Staff at Yeovil Fire Station are working in partnership with South Somerset District Council, Getset and Mothercare to arrange targeted home and road safety events for the summer period. These events will include road safety advice relating to the correct selection and fitting of baby and child car seats. These partnership and events will enabled us to improve the safety of families and their children in their homes and when travelling on the roads. There is a strong desire with our partners to expand this initiative to a regional stage through a joint safety stand at the Bath & West Show.

GP Surgery Partnership By working closely with GPs surgeries and health clinics, staff from Yeovil were able to successfully target senior citizens for Home Fire Safety Visits during the annual flu vaccination programme. Plans are underway to develop these partnerships further and to offer targeted assistance to those living with mobility issues whereby easy evacuation from their homes is compromised in the event of a fire situation.

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Our Incidents The activity information for this local community area is shown in the tables below.

Incidents attended (within station area)

Five Year 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 Station - 73 Yeovil Average

All Fires 136 125 115 132 154 132 Fires where people live (primary) 34 33 33 37 36 35 Fires where people work and visit (primary) 51 37 41 40 61 46

Fires - outdoor and refuse fires (secondary) 38 46 35 44 57 44 Chimney Fires 13 9 6 11 0 8 All False Alarms 200 198 156 198 207 192 False Alarms - Automatic Fire Alarms 143 133 98 148 144 133 False Alarms - Good Intent 48 56 55 45 55 52

False Alarms - Malicious attended 9 9 3 5 8 7 All Special Service Calls 140 169 137 136 122 141 Co-Responding 2 1 1 2 1 1 Road Traffic Collisions 46 54 67 66 37 54 Flooding & Water Rescues 24 22 5 8 9 14 Other Special Service calls 68 92 64 60 75 72 All Incidents 476 492 408 466 483 465

All Incidents minus False alarms 276 294 252 268 276 273 All Incidents minus False alarms and Co-Res. 274 293 251 266 275 272

Station Availability In the 12 months from April 2016 to March 2017* the station was able to crew the following appliances

% Hours Hours Unavailable Availability Fire Engine 1 Wholetime 0 100.0% Fire Engine 2 Retained 0.25 100.0% Fire Engine 3 Retained 1460.25 83.3%

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Station Response Activity:

The table below shows the number of times the local fire station was called out (which may or may not have resulted in attending an incident). It also shows the number percentage of calls on and off the station ground.

5 year Station - 73 Yeovil 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 average

Total Turnouts 809 904 691 792 853 810 Turnouts to incidents on Station Ground 665 741 554 626 626 642

% of Turnouts to Incidents on Station Ground 82.2% 82.0% 80.2% 79.0% 73.4% 79.3% % of Turnouts to incidents not on Station Ground 17.8% 18.0% 19.8% 21.0% 26.6% 20.7%

Station Demand 2012/13 - 2016/17*

The graphs below demonstrate the peak demand on the station in terms of time of the day and month of the year. (*Incidents in station area, not including false alarms or co-responding)

Hour of the day Month of the year

40 60

35 50 30 40 25 20 30 15 20 10

5 10 AnnualNumber ofIncidents 0 AnnualNumber ofIncidents 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Hour of Day Month of Year 5 yr Average - Stn 73 2016/17 - Stn 73 5 yr Average - Stn 73 2016/17 - Stn 73

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40 50 30 Number of 40 Incidents 20 30 5 yr AverageNumber of 10 Incidents 20 5 yr Average 0 10 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 Month of the year 0 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 Month of the year