North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service area
Coverage
Area	North Yorkshire (administrative county) & City of York, England
Operations
HQ	Thurston Road Northallerton DL6 2ND
Stations	39
Co-responder	No
Chief Fire Officer	Nigel Hutchinson
Deputy Chief Fire Officer	{{{DCFO}}}
Website	North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
Fire authority	North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority.
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North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service covering the seven districts of administrative county of North Yorkshire: Craven, Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby; as well as the unitary authority of City of York. The ceremonial county of North Yorkshire also includes the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees (south of the river), Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland however these are covered by the Cleveland Fire Brigade. The service is divided into eight groups related to the above districts^[1]

Stations

The FRS has a total of 39 fire stations, The majority of these are crewed by staff on the retained duty system(RDS), with the minority being wholetime. Unlike other fire and rescue services in the United Kingdom, this FRS has two volunteer fire stations which are crewed fully by volunteers. Currently there are:

• 4 Wholetime Shift fire stations
• 7 wholetime Day-crewed stations
• 26 RDS stations
• 2 Volunteer-crewed stations
• 1 Headquarters and training centre^[2]

Incidents and statistics

The FRS receives a total number of 19,000 emergency calls each year, as well as this the service also deals with 9,000 incidents a year.^[3]

See also

• Fire Service in the United Kingdom
• Fire apparatus
• Fire Engine
• FiReControl

References

1. ^ Division on the FRS, coverage areas (accessed 1 Feb '07)
2. ^ Fire station status/number (accessed 1 Feb '07)
3. ^ Statistics and callout responses (accessed 1 Feb '07)

External links

• Homepage