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East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service
Achieving safer and more sustainable communities
Boroughs & Community Fire Stations
Your Community Fire Stations
Battle Community Fire Station
Contact Details
Station Manager-
Greg Lee
Telephone: 0303 999 1000
- Chris Spiller
- Telephone:0303 999 1000
- London Road
- Battle
- East Sussex
- TN33 0EE
Establishment
The Establishment is the number of posts required to make the Station fully resourced. This Station has an establishment of:-
- 9 wholetime firefighters and 18 Retained units.
Note: A Retained unit may be filled by more than one Retained firefighter depending upon the number hours that the firefighter can commit to.
The Retained Firefighters Drill night is Tuesday at 19.00 hrs.
Appliances
| Vehicle/Description | Call Sign |
|---|---|
| Extended Rescue Pump | Echo18 |
| Volvo Extended Rescue Pump carrying a variety of ladders including a 13.5 metre ladder, 1800 litres water and a pump capable of supplying 2250 litres/min. It is a multi purpose appliance carrying a large amount of equipment including dedicated hydraulic rescue tools, water safety and rescue equipment, oxygen, etc. | |
| Water Tender Ladder | Whiskey18 |
| Multi purpose appliance that carries both firefighting and rescue equipment. It carries 1800 litres of water and a pump that can deliver 2250 litres of water per minute. | |
| Rope Rescue Vehicle | Sierra18 |
| A dedicated 4 x 4 Vehicle equipped with specialist Rope Rescue Equipment and manned by a team of highly trained professionals, to undertake things such as Cliff Rescues, Rescues from High Rise Buildings or structures such as Masts etc, as well as confined spaces such as Wells and Silo's. | |
| Technical Rescue Unit | Tango18 |
| A dedicated vehicle designed and equipped to provide specialist assistance at Road Traffic Collisions, Incidents involving Commercial Vehicles, Aircraft or Trains, Building Collapse, Trench Collapse etc. also incidents requiring specialist Environmental Protection equipment. Manned by a dedicated, specialist team of experts. | |
Risks
The Fire Service Emergency Cover Software (FSEC) Map [pdf, 848K, opens in new tab] provides a graphically breakdown of the Risks for this Station Area.
An explanation of how to use this Map is available on the FSEC Map Cover Note [pdf, 203K, opens in new tab].
The Fire Service Emergency Cover Software combines the following information to determine our "Planned Response".
- Risk to Life.
- Risk to the Built and Natural environment.
- The 2001 Census.
- Demographic people profiles.
- Information from the road network.
The Planned Response will consist of a combination of :
- Prevention - Fire Safety Education,outreach and intervention.
- Protection - Educate and promote fire safety.
- Response - Reactive Emergency actions.
The Risks are classified into five levels listed below:
- Red - Very High Risk Areas
- Orange - High Risk Areas
- Yellow - Medium Risk Areas
- Blue - Low Risk Areas
- Green - Very Low Risk Areas
The areas of risk are mapped out to include a set number of households and this often results in detailed risk catchments for inner City areas and larger risk catchments where houses are adjacent to open/rural spaces.
Station Action Plan
Each Station Area has its own particular mix of risks and problems and tools such as FSEC help to identify and quantify these Risks.
This results in specific aims and objectives per station which are incorporated into the Station Action Plan.
The Station Action Plan highlights performance over the last year and the borough targets to which this station contributes for this year.
Battle Station Action Plan 2012-13 [pdf, 1.4M, opens in new tab]
Further Information
Battle Fire Station is crewed by a combination of wholetime and retained firefighters. They crew four vehicles consisting of two pumping appliances, a Technical Rescue Unit and a Rope Rescue vehicle.
The area covered by the station includes the outlying villages of Brightling, Catsfield, Dallington, Mountfield, Salehurst and Whatlington.
As a result of it's location, the station is often called upon to provide resources at larger incidents in and around the Hastings and Bexhill areas. The Technical Rescue and Rope Rescue units provide cover across the whole of the county and City of Brighton & Hove.