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Our plans in practice for 2012-13

The five District Risk Reduction Plans 2012

Station openings

for the Five Towns

The brigade opened two state-of-the-art fire stations in the Five Towns on Friday, 27 April

Watch the video of the official opening of the new stations at Normanton and Pontefract

Pontefract new station

Fire Safety at Work

Changing times

We must continue to seek new ways to help businesses through the economic downturn and demonstrate that good management of fire safety is a driver for competitiveness and not something that reduces it.

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Fire Safety at Home

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Smoke Alarm Maintenance

In West Yorkshire, 29% of smoke alarms fail to operate, mostly because of missing or flat batteries.Test the batteries in your smoke alarm every week, it could save your life. Click HERE for information.

Demonstration of chip pan on fire

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  • 16 May

    Great Horton residents focus on safety

    West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service played host to a group of older people from the Great Horton area of Bradford to discuss home and road safety. The senior citizens spent the day at the...

  • 15 May

    Fire authority seeks independent person

    West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority is seeking to appoint an independent person from July 2012 to give their views on matters involving authority members and on standards issues. Applicants...

  • 14 May

    Young Firefighters celebrate graduation

    Around 200 teenagers from schools around West Yorkshire passed their Young Firefighters course with flying colours. The young people carried out a number of fire drills in front of their family,...

  • 27 Apr

    Brigade smashes safety targets

    West Yorkshire has smashed the ambitious district-based targets it set itself for reducing fires and other emergencies. The number of turnouts in 2011/12 were:     *    Leeds 10,593 (3 per cent...

  • 23 Apr

    Hero Trio

    Cookridge station commander, Nigel Atkins, has hailed three local heroes who helped avoid a potential tragedy in Headingley last August. Jill Taylor, who lives in Woodbridge Vale, Beckett Park,...

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