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Overview

system) consists of 12 personnel - one Watch Below are the Officers in charge of this station. Manager, two Crew Managers and nine firefighters.

The station area is home to a range of risks, including offices, factories, schools, residential care homes and general mixed housing. The Local Authority areas served are Devon County Council and East Devon District Council. Outside of the town, the station ground also covers an

extensive area of open fields and woodland Watch Manager Local Risk Manager areas, which themselves can cause significant Turner - On call Rooms risks. This plan presents the risks in your area and the actions that Devon & Somerset Fire & The area has a mixture of agriculture, light Rescue Service (DSFRS) will take to make the industry and commence, and major employers community safer. Our actions are a mix of include Axminster Carpets, Axminster power Tool Company, Lowara/Goulds pumps (ITT activities based on prevention), protection and industries) and Tesco Stores. It also includes a emergency response, all undertaken by the large rural area. Specific risks have been people that are best suited for each activity. identified as: Axminster Fire Station is located on Lyme Close,  Large expanses of rural areas, which during off Lyme Road in Axminster, and covers the town the ‘Hot Weather Period’ brings a heavy of Axminster and part of Devon County Council. It burden on the resources of the Brigade covers an area of approximately 107.87 square To discuss the content of this plan with a  476 buildings which fire safety legislation kilometres and a population of 11,829 people. member of the fire service, please use the applies to including; Hospitals, Schools, Axminster Fire Station is jointly occupied by the contact details below: Hotels and Shops Police and Fire Service.  Transport Infrastructure – A degree of trunk Name: Local Risk Manager Graham Rooms and main roads –running through the area The Watch Manager has overall responsibility for Tel: 01392 456881 bringing with it the normal hazards of road the station. The fire station houses one firefighting Email: [email protected] traffic accidents and an increased risk during appliance and undertakes valuable co-responding the holiday period. activities on behalf of the West Country For more information please visit

Ambulance Service. The on call (retained duty 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 Axminster from the time they make the call. It will naturally take us longer to get places further away from the station.

Residents of Axminster 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 Axminster 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 - 34 Axminster Average

All Fires 36 38 32 29 22 31 Fires where people live (primary) 9 10 10 4 6 8 Fires where people work and visit (primary) 13 13 5 11 10 10 Fires - outdoor and refuse fires (secondary) 3 10 11 9 6 8

Chimney Fires 11 5 6 5 0 5 All False Alarms 55 39 32 42 26 39 False Alarms - Automatic Fire Alarms 48 31 21 30 21 30

False Alarms - Good Intent 6 8 11 12 5 8 False Alarms - Malicious attended 1 0 0 0 0 0 All Special Service Calls 382 356 353 350 248 338 Co-Responding 325 323 327 317 217 302 Road Traffic Collisions 9 21 9 13 11 13

Flooding & Water Rescues 30 2 2 5 5 9 Other Special Service calls 18 10 15 15 15 15 All Incidents 473 433 417 421 296 408 All Incidents minus False alarms 418 394 385 379 270 369 All Incidents minus False alarms and Co-Res. 93 71 58 62 53 67

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 182.25 97.9%

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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 - 34 Axminster 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 average

Total Turnouts 175 161 125 138 140 148 Turnouts to incidents on Station Ground 139 126 91 104 75 107

% of Turnouts to Incidents on Station Ground 79.4% 78.3% 72.8% 75.4% 53.6% 72.4%

% of Turnouts to incidents not on Station Ground 20.6% 21.7% 27.2% 24.6% 46.4% 27.6%

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

30 45 40 25 35 20 30 25 15 20 10 15 10 5

5 AnnualNumber ofIncidents AnnualNumber ofIncidents 0 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 34 2016/17 - Stn 34 5 yr Average - Stn 34 2016/17 - Stn 34

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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