IRMP 5 YEAR PLAN

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IRMP 5 YEAR PLAN

• IRMP update.

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HISTORY IN BRIEF

• IRMP Team involved in detailed discussions for 12
  months.
• ACFO Des Tidbury, SDO Les Gollop, SDO Paul
  Southern,
• DO Dave Philips, Jon Ball, SFCO Martin Hockley,
  Lincoln Ball,
• Mark Pinnell.
• Culmination of 3 years work.
• Working closely with ORH.
• Advances in RBFRS data gathering techniques.

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CONTEXT OF IRMP DEVELOPMENT

• CPA feedback 2005 IRMP not yet addressed the
  major drivers for changes and efficiencies.
• Council Tax Capping.
• Efficiency savings.
• The same with less or more with the same

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DRIVERS FOR CHANGE

• fewer fire and special service deaths and
• injuries through the provision of safe and
• effective delivery of services including
• emergency response, community safety,
• and legislative fire safety activities.
• THE AIM FOR ANY CHANGES IS TO IMPROVE THE SERVICE
  TO THE PUBLIC.

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IRMP YEAR II, IMPACT ON FIVE YEAR PLAN

• Review crewing and location of specialist
  vehicles to ensure RBFRS has the ability to
  sustain resources at a major incident in command
  and specialist areas.

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INCIDENT COMMAND UNIT (ICU)

• Re-deploy ICU to Maidenhead from Windsor.
• Retained Duty Shift (RDS) firefighters from
  Maidenhead and Cookham will crew the ICU.
• Reduces switch crewing of 24 hr crewed pumps by
  one
• and increases resilience.

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INCIDENT COMMAND UNIT (ICU)

• In addition Cookham will be designated as a
  specialist unit with the pumping appliance being
  swapped for an off road Mercedes Sprinter and the
  Pinzgauer.
• The first strike capability in the village will
  remain but the crew will also provide brigade
  wide off road support.

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FIRE RELATED INCIDENTS ATTENDED BY COOKHAM
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SPECIAL SERVICE CALLS ATTENDED BY COOKHAM
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INCIDENTS IN COOKHAM

• FDR 1s
• 2004 9
• 2005 12
• RTCs
• 2004 0
• 2005 1 (no service rendered)

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CHEMICAL INCIDENT UNIT (CIU)

• Workloads at Whitley Wood.
• A recommendation was to move CIU to Maidenhead
  with ICU (financial impact).
• Issues with training and crewing.
• Review in Year IV to look at long term viability
  of CIU.
• Short term, CIU to stay at Whitley Wood.

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OTHER YEAR III REVIEWS

• Review of 24 hour duty system.
• Review of 70 second response time.
• Review of Officers Operational Cover.
• Review of Fire Safety resources due to the
  Regulatory Reform Order.

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IRMP 5 YEAR PLAN

• Planning assumptions based on
• 7 years data for incident distribution and
• 3 years data for demand levels and turn
• out times.

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IRMP 5 YEAR PLAN

• IRMP Team made aware of 5 Year Plan in December
  2005.
• FBU provided two documents in response.
• FBUs concern is that reductions should run
  concurrently with improvements.

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RESPONSE STANDARDS

• DWELLING FIRES
• The Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service is
  committed to
• achieving an optimum response standard of 8
  minutes for the first
• appliance and 10 minutes for the second appliance
  for dwelling
• fires.
• The Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service is
  committed to
• a standard response of 10 minutes for the first
  appliance and 12
• minutes for the second appliance for dwelling
  fires.
• The higher risk localities where it is predicted
  that appliances will
• not reach dwelling fires within the standard
  response be prioritised
• for community safety initiatives to drive down
  the risk.

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ROAD TRAFFIC COLLISIONS

• The Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service is
  committed to making an initial attendance to road
  traffic collisions, with the necessary resources
  to commence extrication of casualties, within 11
  minutes.

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OPTIMISING RESOURCES AGAINST RISK
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Run H1b
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IRMP 5 YEAR PLAN KEY STRATEGIES

• Cookham
• Sonning and Wargrave
• Windsor and Bracknell
• Wokingham
• Crowthorne and Camberley
• Dee Road and Caversham Road

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Sonning

• Closure of Sonning Fire Station.
• Redeployment of Personnel.
• Transfer to Wargrave Fire Station
• Opportunities to transfer on to 24 hour shift
  system
• Opportunities to work within a bank system (Ops
  or Community
• Safety)
• Redundancy
• Medium Term Closure of Wargrave and build new
  station at Twyford.

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WINDSOR AND BRACKNELL

• Closure of Windsor Fire Station.
• Pump from Windsor redeployed to Bracknell or
  Wokingham. Bracknell could have 2 or 3 pumps
  depending on option taken.
• Transfer of 20 personnel to enable 12 per watch
• Crewing of pumps 5 and 4. If the second pump
  roams then crew 5 and 5.

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WOKINGHAM

• Reinvest savings from other strategies to achieve
  a 24 hour crewed station or two 12 hour shift
  watches with cover outside these shifts by RDS
  firefighters. Say, cover from 0800 to 2000 hours
  every day with RDS outside these hours.

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CROWTHORNE

• Pinzgauer to be redeployed to Cookham.
• Trial the use of Camberleys pumps into the
  southern part of Crowthornes ground to monitor
  effect on response standards.

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DEE ROAD AND CAVERSHAM ROAD

• Closure of Dee Road Fire Station.
• Pump from Dee Road redeployed to Caversham Road.
• Transfer of 20 personnel to enable 12 per watch
• Crewing of pumps 5 and 4. If the second pump
  roams then crew 5 and 5.

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Cadcorp revised turnout areas