Alfreton Community Fire station is a whole time fire station, which also has an on-call watch located on the Turnpike Business Park in Alfreton. It predominantly responds to incidents in and around the Alfreton area as well as the surrounding areas such as Somercotes, Swanwick, Shirland, South Normanton, Oakerthorpe, Leabrooks and all across Derbyshire when required. The station currently has two fire engines.
EMERGENCIES: 999
General Fire Service Enquiries: 01773 305305
Turnpike Business Park
Alfreton
Derbyshire
DE55 7AD
District: Amber Valley
Wholetime Stations are staffed by wholetime personnel using a shift system of 4 watches (blue, green, red and white) operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This comprises of a 4 on 4 off work pattern of 2 day shifts (8am to 7pm) and 2 night shifts (7pm to 8am), followed by 4 days off.
On-Call Stations are staffed by Firefighters who are members of the community and are paid to respond to emergencies. They do not staff the fire station 24 hours a day like full-time firefighters on the wholetime duty system. They are notified of an emergency call via a personal pager, which they carry with them when they are on duty. On-Call Firefighters will book themselves available for fire calls and, if a call comes in during the hours they have agreed to be on call, they must reach the fire station within the allocated time usually within 5 minutes of receiving the pager message.
Most of our On-Call Firefighters are in full-time employment, with an agreement from their employers to leave to attend an emergency call and nearly all carry out their community engagement, prevention and protection duties.
Wholetime Training : Daily - Usually in the morning
On Call Training : Weekly - Tuesday 18:30
The Watch Manager is identified from the role markings shown & wears a navy blue shirt. Their primary duty, is the running of the station and the management of the staff attached to that location. They are the officer in-charge of the fire appliance & take charge of incidents that they attend.
The Crew Manager is identified by the role markings shown & wears a navy blue shirt. This person assists the Watch Manager in the delivery of their duties, which includes standing in for them in their absence.This person rides on the fire appliance as a crew member but also has the qualifications to be in charge of an incident when required.
Firefighters wear a navy blue shirt but do not have any role markings. Their primary role is to undertake the general duties required for the daily running of the fire station and forms the remainder of the crew that staff the appliance attached to that particular location.
Able to attend all fire service incidents. Crewed by 3-6 staff.
The Unimog is an all-terrain vehicle with 4x4 capabilities used extensively for rope, animal and technical rescue. It has a small Palfinger crane capable of lifting 530kg at full extension (13.9m) and two hydraulic winches mounted front and rear. Although the vehicle can support incidents involving fire it does not carry any firefighting media.
Palfinger crane lift capacity at full extension (13.9m) - 530kg
Palfinger crane maximum potential lift capacity - 2450kg
Palfinger crane 52m Cable drum maximum lift - 1.5 tonnes
Hydraulic winches pull rating - 5.4 tonnes
Weight of vehicle - 12 tonnes
|
Incident Type |
2020/21 |
2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
House fire |
29 | 29 | 23 | 81 |
|
Other building fire |
12 | 20 | 12 | 44 |
|
Vehicle fire |
36 | 44 | 22 | 102 |
|
Outdoor fire |
60 | 78 | 98 | 236 |
|
Road traffic collision |
41 | 44 | 43 | 128 |
|
False alarms attended |
132 | 134 | 143 | 409 |
|
Other non-fire incident |
50 | 61 | 73 | 184 |
|
Total Incidents |
360 | 410 | 414 | 1184 |
