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Watton

Address: Thetford Road, Watton, IP25 6BX

Drill Night: Thursday

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.

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Rescue Pump

This section contains notes written by the crews of this station.

Watton personnel attended 200 calls in 2010, covering a variety of incident types. The Fire Appliance is a Scania 94D Rescue Pump. The Rescue pump has a host of specialist rescue equipment and the fire fighters are highly trained and competent in its use.

Watton is a busy, bustling, market town in the district of Breckland. It is situated on the crossroads of the A1075 Dereham – Thetford road and the B1108 Brandon – Norwich road, about 25 miles from Norwich. The parish covers an area of 2.8 sq miles with approximately 7000 inhabitants.

As with most market towns the majority of its businesses are found on the main high street. The market is on a Wednesday, there is also a Farmer's market on the first Saturday every month, bringing shoppers in from all over the countryside and boosting the trade in the town centre shops. There are shops of all kinds here from your local friendly newsagent or bakery to the larger shops and supermarket.

Personnel from Watton are employed on a Retained Duty System; this means they have other primary employment, from bricklayer and car mechanic to electrician and insurance broker. This diversity of primary employment gives the firefighters an added advantage in dealing with the complexity of emergency situations they are called to.

They are alerted for emergency calls by pager day or night when their help is required. 24 hours per day 365 days per year the Fire Fighters from Watton provide emergency cover for the people of Norfolk

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The New Fire Station at Ryston Close was opened on the 16th June 2006, having moved from the Priory road site which had provided 70 years of service to the community, during that time the town and local area had developed to a point where a larger modern station with better access was required.

This is a very active station dealing with incidents over a large area, including major road and rail networks, river systems, Industrial estates, and a growing population

Each year Downham Market compile their station plan. The plan enables the station management team to ensure that they are well prepared to deal with emergency in the local and wider areas.

The priorities for 2009/10 are:

RESPONSE

SERVICE PRIORITY : OPERATIONAL ASSURANCE

Improve our systems for securing operational assurance

STATION PRIORITIES:

1. Improve Core Skills

2. Maintain appliance and equipment in a constant state of readiness

3. Improve appliance availability.

PREVENTION

SERVICE PRIORITY: OLDER PEOPLE

Improve the safety of older people in their homes

STATION PRIORITIES:

1. Risk assess the vulnerability of the occupier following false alarm domestic dwelling calls and where necessary refer to partner agency to provide support.

2. Undertake a quick strike following a fire in a residential street.

3. Utilise opportunities to generate HFRC referrals for older people.

PROTECTION

SERVICE PRIORITY: SMOKE DETECTORS

Increase the number of working smoke detectors in domestic dwellings

STATION PRIORITIES:

1. Undertake quick strike following a fire in a residential street.

2. Fit or provide smoke alarms in properties visited during emergency calls where none exist.

3. Utilise opportunities to generate HFRC referrals.

PEOPLE

SERVICE PRIORITY: PEOPLE

To improve the overall competence of the workforce

STATION PRIORITIES:

1. Complete appraisals; undertake reviews and action training needs.

2. Improve use of PDR Pro.

3. Concentrate on risk critical training and core skills.

MANAGE

SERVICE PRIORITY: EFFICIENCY

To achieve future efficiency targets

STATION PRIORITIES:

1. Improve appliance availability.

2. Reduce hours lost due to sickness.

3. Reduce injuries by focusing training on risk critical areas.

COMMUNITY

SERVICE PRIORITY: UNDERSTANDING OUR COMMUNITY

To provide services that reflect the needs and expectations of the community

STATION PRIORITIES:

1. Support one major village event.

2. Respond to all requests positively giving explanation where station cannot support an event and signpost them to alternative sources of information (leaflets, CFS team, LRM support, website)

3. Liaise with partner agencies to develop customer focused initiatives to improve our prevention and protection targets.