Droitwich Spa
Station Commander
Richard Young
Station Type
Day Crewed Only
Address
Friar Street Droitwich Worcestershire WR9 8EQ
Droitwich Spa Fire Station
North District Headquarters
Service Headquarters
Richard Young
Station Commander
"Droitwich Fire Station is home to two wholetime watches, an on-call unit, and Hereford and Worcester’s Urban Search and Rescue team (USAR) that is part of the UK Fire and Rescue National Resilience assets. The USAR team can be deployed within 60 minutes anywhere in the UK for up to 3 weeks and are self-sufficient. Fire crews at Droitwich cover major risks in and around Droitwich such as the M5 motorway, but also provide specialist skills and enhanced capabilities across the two counties, including Water First Responders, Rope Rescue, Heavy Lifting, Winching and Emergency Shoring."
Other Station Information
Droitwich Spa Fire Station provides fire cover for the town and surrounding areas and is based within easy reach of the M5 motorway network.
The station has two wholetime day crewed watches, who work four 12 hour day shifts, in addition to 4 x 12 hour on call periods. This equates to 96 hours of duty over 4 days. They are trained in multiple technical rescue disciplines due to housing 1 of 2 Scania Ultra Heavy Rescue Pumps (UHRP) in the Service, which, whilst capable of carrying out firefighting duties, is equipped with specialist equipment for dealing with emergency shoring and heavy transportation incidents. The watches also crew the Incident Support Vehicle (ISV), offering enhanced Breathing Apparatus Control, Salvage, and Hazardous Materials Support.
In addition to this, Droitwich Fire Station also hosts one of 39 National Urban Search and Rescue Teams (USAR) that provide an enhanced capability for dealing with a range of national catastrophic incidents as well as large scale structural collapse and serious transport incidents. USAR have 5 Modules, each equipped with kit to perform a specific role, such as heavy lifting and moving, breaking and breaching or search and rescue.
The station is also able to deal with rope rescues and water rescues.
Station risk profile
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