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Roedean Community Fire Station

Roedean Community Fire Station

Contact Details

Station Manager
  • John Loveridge
    Telephone: 0303 999 1000
Admin Support
  • Janice Beckett (PM)
  • Telephone:0303 999 1000
Address
  • Roedean Road
  • Brighton
  • East Sussex
  • BN2 5RA

Establishment

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

  • 29 Wholetime Firefighters.

Appliances

Table: The following table shows the appliances based at Roedean Community Fire Station
Vehicle/DescriptionCall Sign
Extended Rescue Pump Echo05
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, 572K, 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.

Roedean Station Action Plan 2012-13 [pdf, 1.3M, opens in new tab]

Further Information

Opened in 1957, as the second station for the Brighton Fire Brigade. The station was built to replace an existing station at Rottingdean.

Wholetime firefighters crew one pumping appliance 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The station covers the eastern side of Brighton and is situated on the coast, north of the Brighton Marina village.

Roedean covers an area of 2400 hectares the station ground covers a wide range of larger premises such as Brighton General Hospital, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Sussex Eye Hospital, the Marina, Roedean Girls' School and St Dunstans. The station also provides support for Brighton and Newhaven fire stations.

This page was last updated on 21 May 2013
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