Our firefighters have one of the most respected jobs within the community: responding to incidents, preventing them from happening and protecting West Yorkshire citizens and property.
They work alongside other services, whether they're part of local government provision - such as Social Services - or one of our blue light partners, the Police or Ambulance service.
Firefighters are either wholetime (full-time) or employed on an on-call (part-time) basis. Wholetime firefighters are permanently based at, and mobilised from a fire station. On-call firefighters are often fully employed in other occupations and respond to calls from their home or place of work.
They respond to incidents ranging from house, commercial/industrial and rubbish fires, rescuing people or animals, road traffic accidents, dealing with hazardous materials and floods, to salvage operations.
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