West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
Operational area | |
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Country | England |
County | West Yorkshire |
Agency overview | |
Established | 1974 |
Employees | 1,915 |
Facilities and equipment | |
Stations | 48 |
Website | |
Official website |
The West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service is the county-wide, statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, England. It is administered by a joint authority of 22 people who are appointed annually from the five metropolitan boroughs of West Yorkshire, known as the Fire and Rescue Authority.
West Yorkshire covers an area of approximately 800 square miles (2,100 km2) which includes remote moorland, rural villages, large towns and cities as well as Leeds Bradford International Airport.[1] The fire and rescue service's headquarters are located at Oakroyd Hall, Bradford Road, Birkenshaw, Bradford. There is also a large training centre at Birkenshaw used by other authorities besides West Yorkshire.
History
The brigade was formed in 1974 when the unitary county of West Yorkshire was created and was an amalgamation of smaller forces across the county.
Fire stations
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service operates 48 fire stations, of which 32 are crewed day and night (wholetime), two are day crewed (Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 18:00) and the remainder are crewed by retained firefighters who live near to their fire station and can arrive there within five minutes of a call being received.[2]
Wholetime
Leeds
- Leeds 20
- Cookridge 22
- Garforth 23
- Hunslet 25
- Killingbeck 32
- Moortown 26
- Morley 27
- Wetherby 29
- Stanningley 31
- Rawdon 50
- Rothwell 91
Bradford
Calderdale
Kirklees
Wakefield
Day crewed
Retained
- Haworth
- Ilkley
- Otley
- Silsden
- Holmfirth
- Meltham
- Mytholmroyd
- Skelmanthorpe
- Slaithwaite
- Featherstone
- Hemsworth
- Mirfield
See also
References
- ↑ "About Us". www.westyorksfire.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
- ↑ "Stations". www.westyorksfire.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
- ↑ "Bingley - West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service". West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ↑ "Fairweather Green - West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service". West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
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