West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
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 West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service area |
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| Coverage | |
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| Area | West Yorkshire |
| Size | 800 miles² |
| Population | 2,000,000 |
| Operations | |
| Formed | 1974 |
| HQ | Birkenshaw, Bradford |
| Staff | 1,915 |
| Stations | 48 |
| Chief Fire Officer | Phil Toase |
| Website | West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service |
| Fire Authority | West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority |
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 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.
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[edit] Fire stations
West Yorkshire has a total of 48 fire stations, of these:
- Thirty-two are whole-time shift fire stations crewed 24/7
- Two are day-crewed stations, crewed during the day but with retained part-time staff at night
- Fourteen are retained part-time stations
[edit] Full time
- Huddersfield
- Brighouse
- Cleckheaton
- Elland
- Halifax
- Illingworth
[edit] Day crewed
[edit] Retained
- Haworth
- Ilkley
- Otley
- Silsden
- Holmfirth
- Marsden
- Meltham
- Mytholmroyd
- Skelmanthorpe
- Slaithwaite
- Featherstone
- Hemsworth
- Mirfield
- Normanton
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