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Forest Row Community Fire Station

• Contact Details
• Establishment
• Appliances
• Risks
• Action Plan
• Further Information

Contact Details

Station Manager

• Pup Upton
  Telephone: 0303 999 1000

Admin Support

• Sandra Farmer
  
• Telephone:0303 999 1000

Address

• Station Road
• Forest Row
• East Sussex
• RH18 5DW

Establishment

The Establishment is the number of posts required to make the Station fully resourced. This Station has an establishment of:-

• 12 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 Monday at 19.00 hrs.

Appliances

Table: The following table shows the appliances based at Forest Row Community Fire Station

Vehicle/Description	Call Sign
Extended Rescue Pump	Echo10
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.

Risks

The Fire Service Emergency Cover Software (FSEC) Map [pdf, 502K, 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.

Forest Row Station Action Plan 2012-13 [pdf, [an error occurred while processing this directive], opens in new tab]

Further Information

Forest Row has one pumping appliance crewed by Retained firefighters. There have been 3 Fire Stations in Forest Row, Priory Road, Lewes Road and the present station in Station Road ,which was opened in 1975.

The station serves an area of 9400 hectares including the villages of Ashurstwood, Hammerwood, Hartfield, Coleman's Hatch, Chuck Hatch, Wych Cross, Playhatch, Twyford, Chelwood Gate, Danehill and a part of Nutley and the Ashdown Forest. The village covers large area with mainly residential accommodation and light industry.