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| Fire and Rescue Improvement Consultation |
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Why Fenny Compton Fire Station? Fenny Compton Fire Station is a retained station made up of retained duty system personnel (RDS). In addition to providing part time cover as a member of a fire crew, officers often have full time jobs with other employers. The RDS firefighters respond to a bleeper system and so have to drop what they are doing and respond to the call. This clearly takes time, but despite this some crews can be on the road in a matter of minutes. However, it does mean that there is a time delay of up to five minutes in which RDS firefighters must present themselves for duty. A wholetime station has firefighters on duty 24 hours a day, every day of the year and they can respond to a call immediately without delay. In the case of Fenny Compton, crews from Stratford which is ‘wholetime’ regularly respond to incidents in Fenny Compton and the surrounding areas to either provide support to the Fenny Compton crews or attend incidents when they are unavailable. In addition to support from Stratford, Fenny Compton also borders Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service with whom we have a section 13/16 Fire Services Act 2004 Mutual Assistance agreement for cross border assistance. In 2008/09, Fenny Compton attended 155 incidents. Of those 59 were false alarm calls, 5 were small fires and 29 were road traffic collisions (RTC). Under the new proposals false fire alarms will be dealt with through a robust challenge and response system and small fires and RTCs will be dealt with by the creation of small fires and RTC response teams. In the last year there were a few occasions when Fenny Compton Fire Station was off the run (crews not available for duty). This means that although you may drive past the station, it has been unavailable to respond to emergency incidents. It currently costs in the region of £90,000 to fund Fenny Compton Fire Station. By maintaining operational response from neighbouring stations, Southam, Wellesbourne, Leamington and Banbury (section 13/16 agreement), this will enable the service to re-invest this resource into the development of a Small Fires /Community Fire Safety Unit for the South and East of the County. Community safety teams will still operate in your area, as will our community education and the technical fire safety teams. Fire engines will also be in and around the area dealing with a range of activities aimed at making communities safer. These proposals have not been made lightly and are being professionally driven based upon many years of fire and rescue experience. You can be assured that all of the proposals aim to make Warwickshire a fitter, stronger, fire and rescue service. |
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