2013/14 Cullompton Local Community Profile 2013/14 Cullompton Local Community Profile 2 Contents “By 2014, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Overview .................................................................................................. 3 Service (DSFRS) will be saving lives and limiting Our strategy ............................................................................................ 4 the number of injuries from preventable fires and Our behaviour and values ...................................................................... 4 accidents because people and communities in Work with people, communities, businesses and partners to make Devon and Somerset a safer place to live work and visit. ...................................... 5 Devon and Somerset will be making better informed decisions about their safety and spending Road Safety – the life shattering facts ............................................ 7 their time in safer buildings. Map illustrating our areas of higher fire risk. ................................... 8 Prevention Activities ....................................................................... 9 When local, regional or national incidents do occur, Protection activities ...................................................................... 12 our emergency response teams will be even more Respond to local, regional and national emergencies with the appropriate skill agile to deploy the skills and resources needed to and resources ....................................................................................... 13 deal effectively and safely with the range of Work hard to be an excellent organisation ......................................... 15 challenges they face. Incidents attended ........................................................................ 15 Our trained and qualified staff, our key partnerships Deliberate Fire Reduction ............................................................. 15 and the sustainable processes they operate, will be Station Response Activity: ............................................................ 16 responsive to a constantly changing environment Glossary ................................................................................................ 19 and will be recognised as examples of good practice, as well as contributing to wider society and the DSFRS reputation for organisational excellence.” www.dsfire.gov.uk 2013/14 Cullompton Local Community Profile 3 Overview The Watch Commander has overall responsibility for the economic difficulties in the form of fire setting, 1.5% station. The fire station houses one fire fighting of fire related calls are deliberate. The M5 Motorway appliance. It is crewed by staff working a retained duty and A361 North Devon Link Road however both system - 1 Watch Manager, 2 Crew Managers and 10 cause concern as they have a significant bearing on Firefighters, totalling 12 personnel units which are filled the high RTC activity level, well over twice the by a combination of full cover and part cover contracts. DFRS average for specific groups. The staff are also the main asset in undertaking a range of Community Safety (CS) activities that are primarily The risks mentioned above will, in association with aimed at preventing deaths and injuries from fires the station performance, be the focus for the stated including School Talks, Home Safety Checks, and actions within the plan. smoke alarm fitting. Additionally, the station traditionally Group Area Prevention and Protection profiles have welcomes station visits by numerous local groups been created by the Community Risk Intelligence including pre school groups, cubs, scouts and guides. Team to illustrate the risks in each of the 7 Group Areas. These profiles draw on a wide range of data This is a plan for the local community. It The station’s fully equipped lecture room is also utilised sources including Fire incident data, demographic presents the local risks and the actions that by various external agencies such as the Community information, as well as data from our partners, to Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service First Responders, Mid and East Devon Community provide a framework for an intelligence led (DSFRS) have planned to make the community Safety Partnership and Cullompton Local Action Group. approach to community safety activity across Devon safer. Our actions are a combination based on The station area has a range of risks that are also key & Somerset. These will be the basis for targeting our core activities of prevention, protection and local employers, such as National Trust Killerton, St our approach to community safety work. They will emergency response all undertaken by the Regis Papermills, Watson Petroleum, Lloyd Maunder, be available to view, as they become available at: people that are best suited for each activity. Padbrook Park, TDG Novacold, Gregorys Distribution, http://www.dsfire.gov.uk/AboutUs/WhatWeDo/OurC Cullompton Fire Station is located in Tiverton Road, Mole Valley Farmers & ABN Feedmill. orporatePlan/LocalCommunityPlanning/Index.cfm?s Cullompton EX15 1HS, and covers Cullompton and It also has several medium industrial sites including iteCategoryId=2&T1ID=10&T2ID=123&T3ID=183 its nearby communities extending to its boundaries Kingsmill Industrial Estate, Alexander Ind.Est. with Tiverton, Exeter, Honiton and into Wellington, WM Pratt Longbridge Meadow Ind Est, Southview Ind.Est Willand Somerset. It covers an area of approximately 96 Retained and Post Cross Business Park, Kentisbeare. square miles and has a population of over 23,000 people. The station covers several council wards The station also covers a large farming community and including; Bradninch (Rural & Town) Burlescombe, provides critical back up to major risks in Tiverton, Clayhidon, Cullompton (North, Outer & South) Exeter and is primary response to the M5 Motorway. The Culmstock, Hemyock, Holcombe Rogus, fireground also covers an extensive area open fields and Kentisbeare, Sampford Peverell, Uffculme (Ashill & woodland areas. Village) and Willand. The town does not demonstrate any significant socio www.dsfire.gov.uk 2013/14 Cullompton Local Community Profile 4 Our strategy Our behaviour and values This plan is part of an integrated approach that delivers our strategy ‘Towards High standards of behaviour are required and staff are expected to 2014’ at a local level. The strategy is our most important document and is demonstrate the nationally developed Core Values for the Fire and Rescue constructed around the three strategic principles shown below. This plan is Service. These values will impact on how we deliver the service in all roles constructed around these three principles. To access the strategy click here. through the organisation.Our core values are: Respond to local, regional and national emergencies with the appropriate skills and resources Work with people, communities, businesses and partners to make Devon and Somerset a safer place to live work and visit Work hard to be an excellent organisation To see our detailed Equality commitment and objectives, click here. www.dsfire.gov.uk 2013/14 Cullompton Local Community Profile 5 Work with people, communities, businesses and The technical part...how we identify high risk groups? partners to make Devon and Somerset a safer place to live work and visit. High risk groups and areas are identified by compilation of the data sources described above, these are analysed and factors identified which indicate a level of above average risk for Accidental Dwelling Fires. These are then compared against To understand how we can best use our public resources we analyse the local populations across Devon & Somerset to give an overall picture of the Home community risk and identify who would benefit most from our services. This Safety risk for each of DSFRS’s 7 Group Areas. A high risk group is one with that is identified as having a higher likelihood of having a dwelling fire, rather than likely to makes sure we also remain as cost effective as possible and continue to experience a higher number of dwelling fires. provide value for money. For example within a certain area, the population and expected number of dwelling To help us with our risk analysis we utilise a database (Experian MOSAIC) fires may be distributed as follows: that assists with identifying where those most at risk are likely to be situated. This information helps us target our resources. Group No of Households in Relative Expected Number of area Likelihood Fires Over the next few pages we will show you how we calculate who is most at Index risk and indicate the risk within this local area. A map is provided to easily Z 50 200 5 show this information. Y 200 100 10 X 500 50 12.5 The planned prevention and protection activities to reduce the level of risk are highlighted to show how we are using public resources. In this case though both Groups X and Y would have higher numbers of dwelling fires, due to their larger number of households, however they would not be considered as high risk as those households in Group Z. The benefit in terms of the number of incidents prevented by engagement with households in group Z is clearly much larger (in theory one household in 10 would experience a dwelling fire) than in the other two groups (X would see one in 40, Y one in 20). Relative Likelihood Index (RLI) The likelihood index is a score given to each group which gives the relative likelihood of a household in a particular group experiencing a dwelling