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Overview
The fire station houses a Light Rescue Pump, as Below is the Officer in charge of this station. well as a Command Support Unit which provides
support to larger incidents across the wider Fire and Rescue Service area.
The Watch Manager has overall responsibility for the station. The station is staffed by 11 on call (retained) personnel on full or part cover, consisting of a Watch Manager, two Crew Managers and eight firefighters. In addition to response activities personnel undertake a range of Community Safety activities that are primarily
aimed at preventing fires and other emergencies Watch Manager Priest - On This plan presents the risks in your area and through education, advice and other activities. call the actions that Devon & Somerset Fire &
Rescue Service (DSFRS) will take to make the The station area is home to a range of risks
community safer. Our actions are a mix of including major ‘A’ roads into and out of the activities based on prevention, protection and town, and some light industrial/commercial. The emergency response, all undertaken by the town has a small shopping area, which is people that are best suited for each activity. surrounded by a predominately rural landscape with open farmland. Wiveliscombe is part of the Wiveliscombe Fire Station is crewed by staff Tourism industry being on the edge of the operating the retained duty system which means Brendon Hills. The local Authority areas served personnel are on call to respond to the station at To discuss the content of this plan with a are Somerset County, Taunton Deane and West any time. The fire station is located on North Street member of the fire service, please use the Somerset Council and the following Parishes; contact details below: in Wiveliscombe. Crews provide an emergency Ashbrittle, Bathealton, Brompton response for the town of Wiveliscombe and other Ralph, Chipstable, Clatworthy, Fitzhead, Huish Name: Somerset West Group Admin Office parts of the Taunton Deane and West Somerset Champflower, Milverton, Stawley and Tel: 01823 365352 Council areas, along with ten Parish Councils. It Email: [email protected] Wiveliscombe itself. Outside of the town, the covers an area of approximately 154.56 square response area also covers an extensive area of kilometres and a population of 7,631. For more information please visit open farmland, fields and woodland areas, which www.dsfire.gov.uk/yoursafety themselves can cause significant risks. www.dsfire.gov.uk V2.0 Published April 2018 Wiveliscombe Risk Profile 2018/19 3
Overview The map opposite shows an estimate of how long the fire engine will take to reach residents in Wiveliscombe from the time they make the call. It will naturally take us longer to get places further away from the station.
Residents of Wiveliscombe 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 Wiveliscombe 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 - 72 Wiveliscombe Average
All Fires 22 22 16 25 8 19 Fires where people live (primary) 6 2 3 2 2 3 5 Fires where people work and visit (primary) 4 6 6 4 3 Fires - outdoor and refuse fires (secondary) 2 7 4 5 3 4 Chimney Fires 10 7 3 14 0 7 All False Alarms 18 11 6 6 9 10
False Alarms - Automatic Fire Alarms 13 8 3 5 9 8 False Alarms - Good Intent 5 1 3 1 0 2 False Alarms - Malicious attended 0 2 0 0 0 0 All Special Service Calls 14 14 11 6 7 10 Co-Responding 0 0 0 0 0 0
Road Traffic Collisions 6 6 5 3 5 5 Flooding & Water Rescues 4 0 0 1 0 1 Other Special Service calls 4 8 6 2 2 4 All Incidents 54 47 33 37 24 39 All Incidents minus False alarms 36 36 27 31 15 29
All Incidents minus False alarms and Co-Res. 36 36 27 31 15 29
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 67.5 99.2%
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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 - 72 Wiveliscombe 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 average
Total Turnouts 71 69 53 64 61 64 Turnouts to incidents on Station Ground 52 51 34 42 33 42
% of Turnouts to Incidents on Station Ground 73.2% 73.9% 64.2% 65.6% 54.1% 66.7%
% of Turnouts to incidents not on Station Ground 26.8% 26.1% 35.8% 34.4% 45.9% 33.3%
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
6 6 5 5 4 4
3 3 2 2
1 1 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 72 2016/17 - Stn 72 5 yr Average - Stn 72 2016/17 - Stn 72
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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