North Yorkshire's Fire service says it's seen a reduction in the availability of it's fire engines over the last 12 months.
The latest figures show availability fell to under 75 percent in December down from nearly 85 percent in January last year.

The response numbers for the on-call fire stations for the last three months of 2023 shows that the on-call stations at Danby and Filey achieved over 80% availability with the stations at Lythe and Robin Hood's Bay performing slightly better than the average. On Call provision in the Harrogate and York areas pulled down the overall figures.

Director of Service Improvement - Damien Henderson - says finding enough on-call fire fighters has been an issue.
Meanwhile the number of times North Yorkshire fire engines were called out to Automatic Fire Alarms fell significantly last year after the fire service adopted a new policy.
It now doesn't respond to automatic alarms at most business buildings during the day.
Since the implementation of the new attendance policy which includes non-attendance to buildings where people don’t sleep between 0700-1900hrs, the Fire Service says it has attended 185 fewer automatic fire alarms.
Damien Henderson - says the change has had a big impact on demand for fire engines.
Protection teams are now working with those businesses that have repeat activations of automatic alarms to further reduce the impact.


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