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West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

HMICFRS region and HMI

  • His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services (HMI): Michelle Skeer is HMI for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
  • The service is in HMICFRS’s Northern fire region

HMICFRS’s assessment of West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Our Fire and Rescue Service assessments give you information about how your local fire and rescue service has performed in several important areas. In our latest assessments of West Yorkshire FRS, we made the following graded judgments:

 

About the service

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue serves the five metropolitan boroughs of City of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, City of Leeds and City of Wakefield. The Metropolitan county has grown to become the fourth largest in the UK after Greater London, West Midlands and Greater Manchester. The county also has Leeds Bradford International Airport.

The service has 40 fire stations with its headquarters in Birkenshaw.

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Key facts – 2022/2023

Service Area

784 square miles

Population

2.38m million people people
up3% local 5 yr change

Workforce (FTE)

92% wholetime firefighters
8% on-call firefighters
0.42 per 1000 population local
0.54 national level
down3% local 5 yr change
down4% national 5 yr change

Assets

40 stations
46 fire engines

Incidents

10.4 fire incidents per 1000 population local
10.4 national
2.1 non-fire incidents per 1000 population local
3.5 national
4.5 fire false alarms per 1000 population local
4.3 national

Cost

£23.57 firefighter cost per person per year
£26.96 firefighter cost per person per year (national)