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Overview
Staff are the main asset in undertaking a range Below are the Officers in charge of this station. 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.
The station area is home to mainly dwelling houses, and many of the occupiers commute to the neighbouring town of Tavistock and to the nearby City of Plymouth. The main industry of the area centres around agriculture, with many farms and smallholdings. There is the tourist Watch Manager Noblett Local Risk Manager - On call Hawke attraction of Morwellham Quay within the station This plan presents the risks in your area and area, and this brings in many tourists in the the actions that Devon & Somerset Fire & summer months. The area is on a peninsular and Rescue Service (DSFRS) will take to make the surrounded by the Tamar River on one side and the Tavy River on the other, and also brings with community safer. Our actions are a mix of it an influx of pleasure boat owners. activities based on prevention, protection and
emergency response, all undertaken by the
people that are best suited for each activity.
Bere Alston Fire Station is located on Station Road, Bere Alston and covers the village of Bere Alston and the Parish of Bere Ferrers. It covers an To discuss the content of this plan with a area of approximately 38.30 square kilometres and member of the fire service, please use the a population of 2,989 people. contact details below:
The Watch Manager has overall responsibility for Name: Local Risk Manager Paul Hawke the station. The Fire Station houses one Tel: 01752 333644 firefighting appliance. The station is crewed by on Email: [email protected] call staff under the retained duty system requiring 12 personnel - one Watch Manager, two Crew For more information please visit Managers and nine firefighters. 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 Bere Alston from the time they make the call. It will naturally take us longer to get places further away from the station.
Residents of Bere Alston 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 Bere Alston 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 - 52 Bere Alston Average
All Fires 8 8 7 10 3 7 Fires where people live (primary) 1 1 1 2 0 1 Fires where people work and visit (primary) 2 0 1 2 1 1
Fires - outdoor and refuse fires (secondary) 2 5 0 1 2 2 Chimney Fires 3 2 5 5 0 3 All False Alarms 2 4 3 2 4 3 False Alarms - Automatic Fire Alarms 0 3 3 1 3 2 False Alarms - Good Intent 2 1 0 1 1 1
False Alarms - Malicious attended 0 0 0 0 0 0 All Special Service Calls 6 7 5 5 5 6 Co-Responding 0 0 0 0 0 0 Road Traffic Collisions 2 1 4 5 2 3 Flooding & Water Rescues 2 0 0 0 0 0 Other Special Service calls 2 6 1 0 3 2 All Incidents 16 19 15 17 12 16
All Incidents minus False alarms 14 15 12 15 8 13 All Incidents minus False alarms and Co-Res. 14 15 12 15 8 13
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 951 89.1%
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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 - 52 Bere Alston 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 average Total Turnouts 37 40 20 26 33 31
Turnouts to incidents on Station Ground 15 25 14 18 10 16 % of Turnouts to Incidents on Station Ground 40.5% 62.5% 70.0% 69.2% 30.3% 52.6% % of Turnouts to incidents not on Station Ground 59.5% 37.5% 30.0% 30.8% 69.7% 47.4%
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
4 4
3 3
2 2
1 1 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 52 2016/17 - Stn 52 5 yr Average - Stn 52 2016/17 - Stn 52
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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