West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

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West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
Operational area
Country  England
County West Yorkshire
Agency overview
Established 1974 (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

Rover 200 being used for Fire training at Wetherby Fire Station in 2015.

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

Kirkstall Road fire station
Wetherby fire station

Killingbeck - 32

Bradford

Calderdale

Halifax fire station

Kirklees

Wakefield

Day crewed

Rothwell 92

Retained

Otley fire station

See also

References

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