Fire and Rescue Service Presentation

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Fire-fighters are known to fight fires and that is it, but in matter of fact, we are now known

as Fire and Rescue Service.

The Fire and Rescue Services core functions are; preventing, protecting and responding

We provide emergency and protection services to the communities of ;

- Bath & North East Somerset,

- Bristol, North Somerset

- South Gloucestershire.

We are committed to providing a safer place for people to live, work and visit across an area

of 134,753 hectares and a population of over one million.


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A lot of our work now focuses on how we can prevent accidents and emergencies

happening in the first place, as we believe this is the best way to protect our

communities.

We do this by providing advice and education through;

Events Open days where the public people can come down to the Fire Station to

look at the Vehicles, uniform and a talk from the officers available.

VisitsThese can range from schools to businesss, community officers go to these

places and provide information on incidents which could occur at any time,

information includes, how to prevent, protect and respond.


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Fire-fighters are known to fight fires and that is it, but in matter of fact, but it we are

now known as Fire and Rescue Service.

We cover a range of incidents, these being;

Arson,

Fires, Disasters (Floods, earthquakes),

Chemical spills (alongside the Army),

Road accidents,

Animals trapped (75 is charged for use of officers),

Carbon Monoxide leaks.


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The Fire and Rescue Services role is to try and prevent these intentional fires by

providing information and preventable advice for people of the public, they also

attend these fires to protect the people (priority) and the environment.

For example;

In Lancashire, 7 people were charged for a total of 12 years and 4 months after

they purposely set fire to buildings and various other properties within the area,

costing hundreds of thousands of pounds.

According to statistics, 1 in 3 calls are madeabout a fire.

There was also around 6,000 intentional fires

attended to by the Fire and Rescue Service,

which mainly involved furniture shops. Houses,

businesss and churches.


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A specific fire caused within the UK is;

Fire fighters were called to a Pizza Factory as it was reported that a pizza caught

fire whilst on the conveyor belt, causing the fire to start, over 420 staff wereevacuated immediately for their own safety.

A sprinkler system applied to the factory help prevent any serious damage.

Two Fire engines and 10 fire fighters attended the incident.

No staff or public people were injured.

Smokers' materials, predominantly cigarettes, were the source of

ignition in the fires that accounted for 96 of the 268 fatalities in

accidental dwelling fires in 2010-11.

More than half (51 per cent) of accidental fires in homes arose from

cooking. Other common sources of ignition were: electrical

appliances (12 per cent), electrical distribution (10 per cent),

smokers' materials (7 per cent), and space heating appliances (4 percent).


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The Fire and Rescue Services main roles when incidents caused by nature suchas; floods, earthquakes and tornados/hurricanes.

The fire mens role was to clear any debris build up allowing water to flow awayfrom the village. They were also required to help winch people to safety withinbuildings if people are trapped, this done by using ladders on the pumps (Fire

Engines),

An example of an incident like this is; Boscastle was hit by a large quantity ofrain (1 months worth in a few hours) according to the Home Office, this causingsever damage to the villages infrastructure, homes, businesses and vehicles.

No people were killed in this incident, some were injured.

113 Fire stations are available around the country for use 24

hours a day, all year round, when there is an incident, these

being; Floods, Hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. The

Fire and Rescue Service are called instantly to help provide

support to Police and Army if they are there.


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The fire and rescue Service are require to attend serious vehicle accidents, this caninvolve people being injured in the car and needed to be removed safely or vehiclesbeing so badly damaged, that people are trapped within them.

We are also required to clear all dangers around the area, e.g. Fires, debris, chemicals,fuel or any other flammable materials.

A prime example of The Fire and Rescue Service helping is;The M5 pile-up in early November had been very serious, it was told to have been foggywith slippery surfaces causing the cars to skid whilst braking, it was also reported thatdrivers could hardly see in front of them.

The Fire and Rescue Service however save trapped people from their cars and was thereto assist the Police and help clear the debris from the roads put the fires out whichstarted almost instantly as the crash happened, putting lives at risk.

It was reported there was over 208,000 vehicle

accidents (as of august 2010), this being lower than

that of 2009.

Fatalities dropped from 2009 from 2,346 down to

1,876.


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In Staffordshire, 5 fire crews were called to a car park behind Francescas Hair salon on Burnett

Road, the crew was called just before 3pm with reports that 2 drums full of used dry cleaningliquids had come out of the storage drums they were in as 2 men tried to roll them out whilst

cleaning their garage. Around 20 litres of the chemicals had spilt, resulting in the whole area

being evacuated as the liquid can give off deadly fumes.

The fire and rescue Service also work alongside the Chemical

Unit who specialise with the removal of chemicals, the fire

service ensure that the chemicals have been disposed of by

hosing down the area which could be dangerous to others.

We also work with the Police, we are responsible for ensuring

that the local businesses and local residents are aware of the

situation (chemical spillage).

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