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Totnes Risk Profile 2018/19

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Overview

Firefighters), 2 fire appliances and an Incident Below are the Officers in charge of this station. Command Unit. The staff are also the main asset in undertaking a range of Community Safety (CS) activities that are primarily aimed at preventing fires and deaths and injuries in fires.

The station area includes a mixture of demographics ranging from social housing (many privately owned by registered landlords) to exclusive private housing.

The Totnes area supports an extensive tourism and Watch Manager Local Risk Manager leisure industry concentrated around the natural Williams Taylor geography of the South West coastline and the

Dartmoor National Park. The nearby Dart Estuary

This plan presents the risks in your area and attracts many boating enthusiasts. The area is home

to a range of risks, including major ‘A’ roads including the actions that & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service (DSFRS) will take to make the the A385, A381 and A384, the main rail link between community safer. Our actions are a mix of London and the South West of and the activities based on prevention, protection and private South Devon Steam Railway. Outside of the town, the area also contains extensive open fields emergency response, all undertaken by the and woodland, which themselves can cause people that are best suited for each activity. significant risks. Totnes Fire Station is located in Coronation Road Totnes and covers, as well as the main town, the surrounding Dartington, Harbertonford, Tuckenhay and To discuss the content of this plan with a

Berry Pomeroy areas within South Devon. The local member of the fire service, please use the

Authority areas served are Devon County Council and contact details below:

South Hams District Council. It covers an area of Name: Local Risk Manager Dan Taylor approximately 122.65 square kilometres and a population of 12,046 people. Tel: 01803 6537455 Email: [email protected]

The Watch Manager has overall responsibility for the

station, which consists of a total of: 20 personnel (3 For more information please visit Watch Managers, 3 Crew Managers and 14 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 Totnes from the time they make the call. It will naturally take us longer to get places further away from the station.

Residents of Totnes 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 Totnes 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 - 31 Totnes Average

All Fires 50 50 41 47 43 46 Fires where people live (primary) 16 13 8 11 17 13 Fires where people work and visit (primary) 15 16 10 21 14 15

Fires - outdoor and refuse fires (secondary) 11 13 13 8 12 11 Chimney Fires 8 8 10 7 0 7 All False Alarms 58 55 35 61 47 51 False Alarms - Automatic Fire Alarms 32 29 24 41 36 32 False Alarms - Good Intent 25 22 11 19 11 18

False Alarms - Malicious attended 1 4 0 1 0 1 All Special Service Calls 72 53 38 56 46 53 Co-Responding 0 1 0 1 0 0 Road Traffic Collisions 19 23 14 20 10 17 Flooding & Water Rescues 27 8 8 9 7 12

Other Special Service calls 26 21 16 26 29 24 All Incidents 180 158 114 164 136 150 All Incidents minus False alarms 122 103 79 103 89 99 All Incidents minus False alarms and Co-Res. 122 102 79 102 89 99

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 121.25 98.6% Fire Engine 2 Retained 5602 36.1%

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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 - 31 Totnes 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 average Total Turnouts 307 306 211 294 218 267

Turnouts to incidents on Station Ground 245 225 142 197 150 192

% of Turnouts to Incidents on Station Ground 79.8% 73.5% 67.3% 67.0% 68.8% 71.8% % of Turnouts to incidents not on Station Ground 20.2% 26.5% 32.7% 33.0% 31.2% 28.2%

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

14 25 12 20 10 8 15

6 10 4 5

2 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 31 2016/17 - Stn 31 5 yr Average - Stn 31 2016/17 - Stn 31

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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