Attleborough
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Address: Thieves Lane, Attleborough,NR17 2AP Drill Night: Monday Incidents attended: Click here for incident information This is a retained station. It has a crew consisting of one Watch Manager and two Crew Managers and nine Firefighters. |
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If you need a school visit we target these at Year 2 for Key Stage 1, Year 5 for Key Stage 2 and Year 8 for Key Stage 3. If you have someone who is fire-setting and wish to discuss this with one of our advisors please contact us. We are sometimes also able to attend Community events but this will depend on resources, and we tend to target this to priority areas of our service. We do always look forward to hearing from you with any other queries.
Resources
Rescue Pump
This section contains notes written by the crews of this station.
The station has a compliment of 11 personnel inc. 7 firefighters who provide fire cover 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
The Watch Manager explains, ‘Firefighters working the Retained Duty System (RDS) are a vital part of today’s fire and rescue service, especially in a rural county such as Norfolk, where 39 out of the 41 stations are either staffed solely by the RDS or have at least one RDS crew. When we are called to duty, we become part of a dedicated team ready to face any emergency, we aim to make our area as safe as possible for all those who are living in, travelling within or visiting our area.
We all have a ‘main job’ as our primary employment; most within the community that we serve. We can be called upon any time of the day or night and it is only thanks to the kindness and support or our local employers that we can make ourselves permanently available. Our employers allow us to leave our jobs at a moments notice, quite often we return within an hour, however, on some occasions it could be longer.’
What we do? We get called to a number of emergencies and these include,
• Fires in properties, farms and business premises
• Car fires and farming equipment
• Chimney fires
• Lift Rescues
• Road Traffic Collisions, persons trapped in vehicles
• Calls resulting from adverse weather conditions
• Chemical Spillages
• Animal Rescues
• Humanitarian assistance and Liaising with other emergency services
and the list goes on…
An additional duty for crew at Attleborough is that of Mass Decontamination which forms part of the Government's response to terrorist attacks (although this equipment can be utilized for non-terrorist incidents that require the decontamination of the public and firefighters).
Attleborough firefighters first undertook Mass Decontamination training in 2003 with refresher training continuing indefinitely ensuring that should the need arise; the firefighters at Attleborough will be up to the task.
In 2004 Attleborough Fire Station was issued with a new fire appliance in the form of a Scania ‘Rescue Pump’ which has the capability of responding to more specific types of incidents thus providing better value for money for the community.
Community Fire SafetyWe have been advising people in the communities we cover for the last 23 years we do this through home and school visits – and organisations visiting the fire station.
If you live in our area and would like to know more contact us using the links to the right.
Training and Fitness We attend a minimum 2 hour training session each week (1900-2100hrs), sometimes this extends to 3 hours and are normally called upon approx 3-4 times a week for emergency calls.
Have you ever considered a career as a RDS firefighter? We have vacancies at the station for people especially those who can provide cover Mon-Fri during the day.
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