West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

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West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service area
Coverage
Area	West Yorkshire
Size	800 miles²
Population	2,000,000
Operations
Formed	1974
HQ	Birkenshaw, Bradford
Staff	1,915
Stations	48
Co-responder	No
Chief Fire Officer	Simon Pilling
Website	West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
Fire authority	West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority
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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 is located at Oakroyd Hall, Bradford Road, Birkenshaw, Bradford.

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.

Wholetime

• Leeds
• Cookridge
• Garforth
• Gipton
• Hunslet
• Moortown
• Morley
• Stanks
• Wetherby
• Stanningley

• Bradford
• Fairweather Green
• Idle
• Keighley
• Odsal
• Rawdon
• Shipley
• Huddersfield
• Brighouse
• Cleckheaton

• Elland
• Halifax
• Illingworth
• Wakefield
• Batley
• Castleford
• Dewsbury
• Ossett
• Pontefract
• Rothwell

• South Elmsall

Day crewed

• Knottingley
• Todmorden

Retained

• Haworth
• Ilkley
• Otley
• Silsden
• Holmfirth
• Marsden
• Meltham
• Mytholmroyd
• Skelmanthorpe
• Slaithwaite
• Featherstone
• Hemsworth
• Mirfield
• Normanton

See also

• Fire service in the United Kingdom

References

1. ^ About Us, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Website. URL accessed December 11, 2006.

External links

• Official website

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