A fire engine in Grassington did not attend a house fire on Tuesday due to a lack of staff.
Grassington Fire Station posted on social media about being unable to attend a local house fire due to insufficient staffing
Grassington Fire Station said it requires a minimum of four people to able to deploy its fire engine, with insufficient staffing at present to keep the station running 24 hours a day. The three smaller stations handle between 50-100 callouts a year each, with roughly six on-call firefighters currently available for each siteThe 41 on-call staff across the district need to attend stations within five minutes when a call arrives
Martyn Hughes, station manager for the district, said: "Due to the locations and type of populations it becomes more difficult to recruit, people tend to have to commute for work away from the area. Jeff Richardson, district watch manager, said: "There's six on-call firefighters at Grassington, if you think about crewing 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it's beyond any person to give that amount of time and be in the area for a quick emergency response.
On-call firefighters in the district currently include full-time plumbers, joiners, plasterers, NHS workers and a computer games designer, the fire service said.Grassington Fire Station recently posted on social media: "We are at severe risk of our fire engine being unavailable more frequently and want to remedy this quickly"
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