The local community, Dacorum Council and local MP’s

Introductory Statement

REJECTThe proposal to close Bovingdon Fire

Station

Presented by Sharon Sims/John Sanderson - 29th Nov 2005

Our Campaign•US Airforce ex-servicemen -

the “Bovingdon Bunch” give their support

Statistics

•Population of Bovingdon: +5000

•There are two primary schools and several pre-schools.

•Highly volatile flammable pipe line

•Population of Surrounding villages: +2000

•Population of the prison: 700

Local Traffic

Bovingdon MarketNormal attendance on a Saturday is 8,000 to

10,000 people (The population of the village is therefore trebled)

Reproduced by kind permission of WendyFair Markets

+20,000 visitors alone on a Bank Holiday.

High Risk Incident Frequency Rate by Station 2003/04

High Risk Incident Frequency Rate by Station 2003/04

•If Bovingdon Station closes all calls will be the responsibility of the 2nd busiest station in the area.

•Cover for other Hertfordshire stations

Turn out support to other areas 2004/2005

•Cover for Buckinghamshire

Chesham is retained but is only currently

operating at night

Amersham is day crewed.

Greater than ten minute response

time

Greater than ten minute response

time at night

Represents the ten minute border for an engine attending

from Hemel Hempstead

Have the weather conditions been considered?

Have the peak traffic periods been considered?

Cutting Costs

•£500k/£36m < 2%

•£90k/£500k = 18%

•£90/£36m = 0.25%

•Retained fire fighters are a very cost effective resource

The RRT’s report can be accessed on the ODPM website: www.odpm.gov.uk

Government Review Findings

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Community Safety

Recent Local Fire Safety initiative

Unreliable Data

EXAMPLE 1: Data supplied from Herts County Council unaudited summary accounts 2004/05 illustrates Herts Fire

and Rescue attended approx. 17,000 incidents.

Herts County Council confirmed that these details are from 2003/04 and the correct figure should be shown as approx.

13,000 incidents.

Should we trust the facts and figures?

Unreliable Data

EXAMPLE 2: Fire service records show a house fire in Bovingdon as Hemel Hempstead engine first on scene, when it was actually the Bovingdon crew that “made pumps 4” when they 1st arrived before the Hemel Hempstead tender.

Should we trust the facts and figures?

Unreliable Data

EXAMPLE 3: Roy Wilsher quoted a number of facts and figures on specific incidents in the Bovingdon area at the Parish Council Meeting and how Hemel Hempstead and

surrounding stations met the ten minute attendance times.

The times quoted were from the time the station was alerted NOT from the time of the 999 call.

Should we trust the facts and figures?

Attendance times: Amersham (Birch Lane) = approx. 16 minutesHemel Hempstead (Green Dragon) = approx. 14 minutes.

Attendance times: Bovingdon (Tower Hill) = approx. 9 minutesKings Langley (Tower Hill) = approx. 11minutes

Attendance Time = Time from 999 call

Attendance times: The Mount and Dudley House > 10 minutes

Future Developments

Working with the Ambulance service

No-one can predict the future, but other future developments will impact further the responsiveness of

the local services

Re-location of call centre

Local Knowledge

Further reduction in retained stations

Global warming

Increased Housing

Summary

•Population•Prison and Market•Attendance times

•Cost Cutting•Data Reliability

•Future Developments

We invite you to visit us.

We would like the County Council to:

The Draft Community Safety Plan 2006 -2007 proposal

Support the local community and

REJECT