Friday, 8 November 2013

Retained Fire Crews - how often are they available?

I extracted the following data from the background document  to the consultation on the proposed 2022 reorganisation of fire services in Derbyshire.

There is no clear description of how they define availability, but I presume that this measures the number of times they were successful in mustering the required size of crew in the required time, as a proportion of all fires when they would like to have sent that crew.

Station % availability from Retained crew 2012-2013 Page in
document
Buxton 11.62% 144
Swadlincote 40.68% 214
Ashbourne 2+ 42.20% 172
Glossop 43.25% 134
Melbourne 51.69% 214
Clowne 52.10% 261
Clay Cross 2+ 60.30% 251
Long Eaton 62.97% 227
Matlock* 63.63% 162
Shirebrook 72.40% 261
New Mills 74.01% 125
Ilkeston 75.65% 227
Whaley Bridge 81.41% 125
Hathersage 83.27% 153
Alfreton 84.19% 204
Staveley 86.55% 239
Crich 86.86% 204
Ripley 89.97% 204
Heanor 90.03% 204
Bradwell 90.79% 153
Chapel-en-le-Frith 91.08% 125
Duffield 95.54% 194
Ashbourne 1+ 97.40% 172
Belper 97.65% 194
Bolsover 97.70% 261
Clay Cross 1+ 99.82% 251
Dronfield 100.00% 251
Average 74.92%
* Special case as retained crew coverage is from full-time firefighters living in Fire Service accommodation next to station
+Two on-call appliances at same station: presumed to be % of time they can turn out one and both engines
Page 204 says that Alfreton Retained (84%) has 'above average availability when compared with the wider Service'
No data provided for Bakewell (and perhaps others)


Source: "Fit to Respond for Consultation Reference October 2013" - Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service

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