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The specific response risks within the geographical area • New Port Park Mobile Home Site - This site Overview of Topsham are; contains 150 mobile homes with a high elderly resident profile. Home Fire Safety Visits have been • Network Rail Stations & Infrastructure carried out to all static homes over the last 5 years. • & Ship • Local sports clubs - Topsham has many local • Marsh Barton Industrial Estate sports clubs, Rugby, Football, Bowling, Sailing, • New Housing Developments Swimming are just some. All clubs which own their • Local sports clubs own premises are visited as part of the stations • Farms operational risk gathering and crews conduct training • Rural for sports and public entertainment venues. • Wildfire • RTC - Due to its location, crews are trained to • Thatch operate the heavy rescue vehicle, a high proportion • Flooding of incidents it attends are Road Traffic Collision’s and crews have an additional 2 hours a month to maintain • Heritage - Topsham is four miles from the centre of their RTC skills to meet this risk. Exeter, famed for its shipbuilding and maritime history; it offers a mixture of heritage listed architecture. Crews • New Developments - Seabrook Orchards and This plan presents the risks in your area and the focus on heritage firefighting techniques as part of their The Rydons are two new housing developments. training. Crews from Topsham carry out site visits to actions that & Somerset Fire & Rescue familiarise themselves with the development and to Service (DSFRS) will take to make the community • Topsham Museum - One of Topsham's historic understand the new building construction methods safer. Our actions are a mix of activities based on buildings, it contains valuable artefacts and the station used. prevention, protection and emergency response. have a salvage plan and hold familiarisation training and Below are the Officers in charge of this station. visits to pre plan their response. Our emergency response activities are those activities that we will undertake to ensure that we • - The estuary is tidal at Topsham have the right resources with the right skills in exposing deep fluvial mud flats at low tide. Staff are trained to level 2 water rescue and have support from the right place at the right time. Exmouth Fire Station of special boat teams and mud mat equipment. Annual water rescue and mud rescue Topsham Fire Station is located in Fore Street, Topsham, training is carried out. EX3 ONF and covers Topsham town centre and its nearby • Topsham Railway - The railway is part of the communities. Topsham has two fire appliances and is and a major local branch line for commuters crewed by staff working a salaried on call (retained duty) from Exmouth to Exeter; it has an electronic gated system - 1 Watch Manager, 3 Crew Managers and 14 fire Watch Manager Hilton - Local Risk Manager railway crossing. Crews from Topsham conduct annual fighters. Staff and are trained to deal with the specific risks On call Laker training for Railway Incidents. within the geographical area and are supported by a Group Support Team and other Fire Stations. Personnel will • Darts Farm & Local Business Parks - Darts Farm is To discuss the content of this plan with a member of carry out training, risk visits and exercises with the aim of the largest retail outlet and there are also three other the fire service, please use the contact details below: enhancing & developing their knowledge of operational light industrial business parks within Topsham. Crews Name: Local Risk Manager Jim Laker procedures specifically for the range of risks identified carry out annual risk inspections and familiarisation visits Tel: 01392 456873 within their geographical area. and plan exercises at these sites. Email: [email protected] For more information please visit

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Our Response

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

Residents of Topsham 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 Topsham 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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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 - 45 Topsham Average

All Fires 6 6 7 6 10 7 Fires where people live (primary) 1 2 1 0 4 2 Fires where people work and visit (primary) 0 1 3 1 4 2

Fires - outdoor and refuse fires (secondary) 1 3 2 5 2 3 Chimney Fires 4 0 1 0 0 1 All False Alarms 9 14 7 6 12 10 False Alarms - Automatic Fire Alarms 7 12 5 4 11 8 False Alarms - Good Intent 2 2 2 2 1 2

False Alarms - Malicious attended 0 0 0 0 0 0 All Special Service Calls 8 9 4 6 7 7 Co-Responding 1 0 0 0 1 0 Road Traffic Collisions 0 1 0 0 1 0 Flooding & Water Rescues 3 3 0 0 2 2

Other Special Service calls 4 5 4 6 3 4 All Incidents 23 29 18 18 29 23 All Incidents minus False alarms 14 15 11 12 17 14 All Incidents minus False alarms and Co-Res. 13 15 11 12 16 13

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 Retained 657.5 92.5% Fire Engine 2 Retained 6883 21.4%

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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 - 45 Topsham 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 average Total Turnouts 160 184 163 87 164 152

Turnouts to incidents on Station Ground 26 26 18 17 14 20 % of Turnouts to Incidents on Station Ground 16.3% 14.1% 11.0% 19.5% 8.5% 13.3%

% of Turnouts to incidents not on Station Ground 83.8% 85.9% 89.0% 80.5% 91.5% 86.7%

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

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4 3 3 2 2 1

1 AnnualNumber ofIncidents 0 Annual Numberof Incidents 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 45 2016/17 - Stn 45 5 yr Average - Stn 45 2016/17 - Stn 45

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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