Great question! Since around 2018 I believe we rode the Watch Managers separate to the pumps due to the fact we can save money in the long run! As well as this the benefits of them is they can carry equipment which the pump may not have space to carry or some equipment that may be specialised to the station (like foam for Hunslet) Primarily they can be sent separate to a pump to incidents which control are unsure on from callers details, then a decision can be made as to if a pump needs to attend or not. Unsafe structures are massive for these
@@EastSussex999basically yeah! It’s a strange one but the benefits is they can carry extra equipment, so stations like Cleckheaton whose technical rescue can carry other equipment for animals trapped between walls which aren’t specifically on the TRU will have to be switched over when the job comes in. So the CLM at Cleckheaton can take some of this equipment
@@elliotframpton3073 that's what Is expected of the crew interms of their time to turnout, live within 5 minutes of station, drive down and get on the pump
@@jld9107 Very rarely will you find that with an incident, think it took them maybe 6 minutes to turnout, can't remember when the call was off the top of my head! All I know from asking the WM was it was a derelict building fire
Rawdon's a day crewed station, so there is crews there 7 days a week from 8AM-5PM, past them hours they respond from home so exactly like a retained station! We also have Cookridge too which go to the airport and are about the same distance to the airport than Rawdon!
Usually what you find is 90% of the jobs that come in at the airport are within the 8am-5pm hours, I've seen maybe 3 since I started with planespotting 6 years ago which were outside of these hours!
@@the_once-and-future_king.That’s true - usually Cookridge are pretty quiet so never really go out to them jobs much. Aircraft Emergencies occur at Leeds Bradford maybe twice a year max. Usually we send our aircraft to Manchester due to a longer runway and better facilities
@@the_once-and-future_king.That’s true - usually Cookridge are pretty quiet so never really go out to them jobs much. Aircraft Emergencies occur at Leeds Bradford maybe twice a year max. Usually we send our aircraft to Manchester due to a longer runway and better facilities
@@yorkshire9998 I live in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, my mate is the boss man of the retained crew and he was telling me the times, anyway, I thought that were quick enough. Again, great catch.
@@A.Duffy85 The crew will be responding from home, 1 guy had remained at station after shift so managed to get the bay doors open, pagers can go at anytime so the firefighters may have been having their dinner, watching TV or having a shower which may impact their time to respond to station. This was a fairly average turnout for 8pm!
@@yorkshire9998 im on about when they got there not getting from home! They was zero urgency. My dad worked as a firefighter for 30 years in west yorks so i know how it works
@yorkshire9998 Sorry I was an RDS Firefighter for 31 years and SubO/WM for 17 of those years. The question was aimed at the person commenting why so slow.
Great video 📹 to watch
Thanks 👏 😊
Thankyou!
Why does a watch manager have their own car? Aren't they usually OIC on the primary pump?
Great question! Since around 2018 I believe we rode the Watch Managers separate to the pumps due to the fact we can save money in the long run! As well as this the benefits of them is they can carry equipment which the pump may not have space to carry or some equipment that may be specialised to the station (like foam for Hunslet) Primarily they can be sent separate to a pump to incidents which control are unsure on from callers details, then a decision can be made as to if a pump needs to attend or not. Unsafe structures are massive for these
Apologies for the late reply on this - I saw it when you posted it but for some strange reason never decided to reply
@@yorkshire9998 So they're essentially carrying out the functions of a station manager without as much responsibility?
@@EastSussex999basically yeah! It’s a strange one but the benefits is they can carry extra equipment, so stations like Cleckheaton whose technical rescue can carry other equipment for animals trapped between walls which aren’t specifically on the TRU will have to be switched over when the job comes in. So the CLM at Cleckheaton can take some of this equipment
Great video mate
Cheers Mate!
Brilliant
@@EdwardWalker-j4p Thankyou!
Nice!
@@southeastandsouthcentralem0743 Thankyou!
Hope im not in West Yorkshire next time i need the fire service
@@elliotframpton3073 that's what Is expected of the crew interms of their time to turnout, live within 5 minutes of station, drive down and get on the pump
Incident be over by turn they turnout😮
@@jld9107 Very rarely will you find that with an incident, think it took them maybe 6 minutes to turnout, can't remember when the call was off the top of my head! All I know from asking the WM was it was a derelict building fire
Sorry but which absolute genius decided to have only a single retained appliance at the station closest to an international airport?
Rawdon's a day crewed station, so there is crews there 7 days a week from 8AM-5PM, past them hours they respond from home so exactly like a retained station! We also have Cookridge too which go to the airport and are about the same distance to the airport than Rawdon!
Usually what you find is 90% of the jobs that come in at the airport are within the 8am-5pm hours, I've seen maybe 3 since I started with planespotting 6 years ago which were outside of these hours!
@@yorkshire9998 Assuming Cookridge isn't out because of some tosser messing with a call point or torching a wheelie bin...
@@the_once-and-future_king.That’s true - usually Cookridge are pretty quiet so never really go out to them jobs much. Aircraft Emergencies occur at Leeds Bradford maybe twice a year max. Usually we send our aircraft to Manchester due to a longer runway and better facilities
@@the_once-and-future_king.That’s true - usually Cookridge are pretty quiet so never really go out to them jobs much. Aircraft Emergencies occur at Leeds Bradford maybe twice a year max. Usually we send our aircraft to Manchester due to a longer runway and better facilities
Excellent video, retained crews have got to be at the station 4-8 minutes after their pagers goes off.
@@billyweir714 indeed! I think it was about 6-7 minutes for the turnout as I stopped recording to speak to crews.
@@yorkshire9998 I live in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, my mate is the boss man of the retained crew and he was telling me the times, anyway, I thought that were quick enough. Again, great catch.
Fire was out by time they got there
Why are they so slow? 🙈
@@A.Duffy85 The crew will be responding from home, 1 guy had remained at station after shift so managed to get the bay doors open, pagers can go at anytime so the firefighters may have been having their dinner, watching TV or having a shower which may impact their time to respond to station. This was a fairly average turnout for 8pm!
@@yorkshire9998 im on about when they got there not getting from home! They was zero urgency.
My dad worked as a firefighter for 30 years in west yorks so i know how it works
Do you know how an on call/retained crew work ?
@@CDB8939Yes, they live / work within 5-8 minutes of the station and respond when the pager goes off from
@yorkshire9998 Sorry I was an RDS Firefighter for 31 years and SubO/WM for 17 of those years. The question was aimed at the person commenting why so slow.