North Yorkshire Fire Service are still waiting for government funding to help cover the costs of last summer's Langdale Fire.
Finance Chiefs working with the Fire Service say all invoices and other required documents have been submitted to central government.
North Yorkshire's Chief Fire Officer is Jonathan Dyson.
He says the funding does have an effect on other important costs for the force:
"As for the Langdale funding, the position we're in, we did go early on that request for that specific point because we don't carry the reserves that many of the Mets could do to then holds into that position. Um, and of course, without it, that will significantly change our plan.
"Pension contributions now, the government recently did a pension, consultation through the LGA and firefighters Pension contributions are actually decreasing slightly, but then other offices in the profile are increasing. So the stability of the pension contributions as far as we are planning is maintained within this current plan."
The Deputy Officer for Police, Fire and Crime Functions, in North Yorkshire, is Michael Porter:
" In terms of Langdale, we have a claim in as part of a bellwind scheme for about £2.6 million, in relation to the costs that were over and above those costs, that would naturally be incurred by the organisation. I think it's fair to say we're in active correspondence in relation to this.
"We've had to submit every single invoice. With a line-by-line explanation as to what it was. We've had to produce information on every area of expenditure. We've had to prove that we've paid the invoices and we're continuing to provide that level of information. So we're about to send another tranche of information through.
"I remain very hopeful that we'll receive the vast majority of the funding. I think it falls within the bellwind scheme, which is why we implement it, put it in in the first place. But we do need that formal confirmation."
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