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Overview
Crew Managers and ten Firefighters. Staff are the Below are the Officers in charge of this station. main asset in undertaking a range of Community Safety activities, which are primarily aimed at equipping people with the knowledge to be aware of their own ability to reduce the chances of them becoming involved in a preventable fire or other types of emergency.
Specific risks in the station area include:
The designated special risk premises of HM Prison Dartmoor, a Category C training prison, housing approximately 680 prisoners. Watch Manager Barrett Local Risk Manager Light industry comprising small business - On call Marsh complexes and a brewery
This plan presents the risks in your area and Large expanses of rural areas, which during the Hot weather periods can bring a heavy burden on the actions that Devon & Somerset Fire & the resources of the Service Rescue Service (DSFRS) will take to make the 68 buildings which Fire Safety legislation applies community safer. Our actions are a mix of including schools, hotels and shops; 3 of which are activities based on prevention, protection and high risk
emergency response, all undertaken by the Transport infrastructure – the minor roads running through the area bring with them the normal people that are best suited for each activity. hazards of Road Traffic Collisions and an increased risk during the holiday period and Princetown Fire Station is a Retained Fire station, inclement weather. located in the centre of the Dartmoor national Park, and A large number of rural premises are in areas of covers the towns and villages of Princetown, Huccaby, limited water supply and can be difficult to access To discuss the content of this plan with a Hexworthy and Postbridge. It is located within the during times of inclement weather. A number of member of the fire service, please use the Lydford Ward of West Devon Borough Council. It the properties in the area are also listed status and contact details below: covers an area of approximately 173.48 square some have thatch roofs. kilometres and a population of 2047 people. Name: Local Risk Manager Dave Marsh Tel: 01752 333608 The Watch Manager has overall responsibility for the Email: [email protected] station. The Fire Station houses one fire fighting appliance and a co-responder vehicle. The station is crewed by on call staff under the retained duty system For more information please visit requiring 14 personnel – one Watch Manager, three 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 Princetown from the time they make the call. It will naturally take us longer to get places further away from the station.
Residents of Princetown 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 Princetown 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 - 56 Princetown Average
All Fires 12 4 19 8 5 10 Fires where people live (primary) 0 0 1 0 0 0 Fires where people work and visit (primary) 2 2 8 4 1 3
Fires - outdoor and refuse fires (secondary) 7 0 8 4 4 5 Chimney Fires 3 2 2 0 0 1 All False Alarms 2 5 5 4 3 4
False Alarms - Automatic Fire Alarms 1 3 2 1 2 2 False Alarms - Good Intent 1 2 3 2 1 2 False Alarms - Malicious attended 0 0 0 1 0 0 All Special Service Calls 53 35 54 68 27 47 Co-Responding 43 31 44 62 23 41
Road Traffic Collisions 3 0 7 3 1 3 Flooding & Water Rescues 1 1 1 1 0 1 Other Special Service calls 6 3 2 2 3 3 All Incidents 67 44 78 80 35 61 All Incidents minus False alarms 65 39 73 76 32 57
All Incidents minus False alarms and Co-Res. 22 8 29 14 9 16
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 3258.25 62.8%
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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 - 56 Princetown 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 average
Total Turnouts 31 20 25 22 14 22 Turnouts to incidents on Station Ground 20 15 23 14 7 16
% of Turnouts to Incidents on Station Ground 64.5% 75.0% 92.0% 63.6% 50.0% 70.5% % of Turnouts to incidents not on Station Ground 35.5% 25.0% 8.0% 36.4% 50.0% 29.5%
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
5 10 4 8
3 6
2 4
1 2 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 56 2016/17 - Stn 56 5 yr Average - Stn 56 2016/17 - Stn 56
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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