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Rye Community Fire Station

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

Contact Details

Station Manager

• Scott Hartnoll
  Telephone: 0303 999 1000

Admin Support

• Chris Spiller
  
• Telephone:0303 999 1000

Address

• Ferry Road
• East Sussex
• TN31 7DJ

Establishment

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

• 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

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

Vehicle/Description	Call Sign
Extended Rescue Pump	Echo20
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	Whiskey20
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.

Risks

The Fire Service Emergency Cover Software (FSEC) Map [pdf, 429K, 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.

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

Further Information

Rye has two pumping appliances crewed by Retained Firefighters.

The present station was opened on the 6 April 1989 after a period of 52 years at the previous site in Ferry Road.

The station covers 8,447 hectares including Rye Harbour, with the remainder of the area rural. The station has responsibility for the only C.O.M.A.H. Site in East Sussex and serves the outlying villages of Peasmarsh, Winchelsea, Rye Foreign, Camber and Icklesham.