News

  • 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,...

  • 20 Apr

    Opening of first 'Blue Light' station

    New fire stations in Pontefract and Normanton are to be officially opened next week by the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Dr. Ingrid Roscoe. Pontefract will become the first ‘Blue Light’...

  • 20 Apr

    Brigade gets clean bill of health

      The West Yorkshire brigade has set a high benchmark for the rest of the country’s fire and rescue services.   West Yorkshire was one of three brigades to pilot a new voluntary inspection...

  • 29 Mar

    Fires prompt wildfire warning

    Devastating moorland fires have prompted a warning by West Yorkshire’s firefighters about the importance of taking care while in the countryside. West Yorkshire’s firefighters dealt with an...

  • 20 Mar

    Check your smoke alarm this weekend

    West Yorkshire fire chiefs are urging people to make a potentially life-saving move when they change their clocks this weekend (Sunday, 25 March) - by taking a moment to test their smoke alarm...

  • 14 Mar

    Emergency services training exercise

    Police and the other emergency services across West Yorkshire will be conducting a large scale training exercise this weekend in Leeds. The training operation will take place in the heart of the...