Do I understand the concept right? The firefighters Volunteer for service and get paid for time? I am trying to see if I understand the term retained. In our rural areas and many suburbs we have volunteer Fire and Rescue services. I am from Long Island in the US. Our guys volunteer volunteer and get paid in beer and beer, no property taxes and glory. My local community's Department the Ronkonkoma Fire Department Responds to nearly 1300 calls and like 800 ems runs. Purely volunteer, they must majestic like 80% of the calls when they first start and maintain at least 60% of calls Responded to.
On-call firefighters (retained) are paid firefighters but they respond from either another place of work or home so have to live or work within around 5 minutes of the station. Essentially the same as their full time counter parts except they are not on station 24 hours a day.
Brixham is one of 83 fire stations of Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service. Check out their website for a lot more info. On-call firefighters are called 'retained' because they're paid a varying retainer fee based on the number of hours they make themselves available to respond to calls (from home or workplace). Payment systems vary across the UK, but usually in addition they're paid a turn out fee and paid the same hourly rate as the full time crews (minimum 2 hours per call out). Compulsory training/practice is weekly (usually an evening). All full time/retained crews are trained to a high standard (all UK fire services are routinely inspected for efficiency, etc. by a Government agency). The UK don't have each individual town providing their own fire service (that system disappeared in 1939 as highly inefficient with the outbreak of war).
@@davewhite768 They're fairly busy for retained because they're quite close to Exeter. DSFRS do have a lot of two pump retained stations. I think they have 122 pumps spread across 83 stations.
We do. At least in HWFRS, our pumps are sometimes even better but always equal. D&S seems to have a lot of old pumps passed down to retained for some reason
Great catch 👍🚒. New station looks good
On our station we had the appliance the other way round has like most 2 pump station the WTL normally goes out first good catch nice new station
Quite 🎇
The 02 plate MAN is the larger 1st away Medium Rescue Pump and the Iveco is the 2nd away Light Rescue Pump
Lovely catch mate 🧑🏻👍🏻🚒
Thanks Mate
@@cornwall9994 No worries 🧑🏻👍🏻
Nice shout
Good catch
Lovely catch
Great video!
Thank you!
great catch
Should have said, excellent video
At least they can turn out easier ,no pun .
they use to go on the kurb and that was pain .
Old banger
Cool Catch is this a volunteer station?
Is this a one pump retained station?or a two pump whole time/retained station?
2 pump On Call station.
Thanks
Do I understand the concept right? The firefighters Volunteer for service and get paid for time? I am trying to see if I understand the term retained. In our rural areas and many suburbs we have volunteer Fire and Rescue services. I am from Long Island in the US. Our guys volunteer volunteer and get paid in beer and beer, no property taxes and glory. My local community's Department the Ronkonkoma Fire Department
Responds to nearly 1300 calls and like 800 ems runs. Purely volunteer, they must majestic like 80% of the calls when they first start and maintain at least 60% of calls Responded to.
On-call firefighters (retained) are paid firefighters but they respond from either another place of work or home so have to live or work within around 5 minutes of the station. Essentially the same as their full time counter parts except they are not on station 24 hours a day.
Brixham is one of 83 fire stations of Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service. Check out their website for a lot more info. On-call firefighters are called 'retained' because they're paid a varying retainer fee based on the number of hours they make themselves available to respond to calls (from home or workplace). Payment systems vary across the UK, but usually in addition they're paid a turn out fee and paid the same hourly rate as the full time crews (minimum 2 hours per call out). Compulsory training/practice is weekly (usually an evening). All full time/retained crews are trained to a high standard (all UK fire services are routinely inspected for efficiency, etc. by a Government agency). The UK don't have each individual town providing their own fire service (that system disappeared in 1939 as highly inefficient with the outbreak of war).
@@nevillemason6791 thanks!
In addition to the other answers there's a separate NHS ambulance service that responds to medical calls
What's the iveco pump for?
It’s just their second away appliance.
Hiya mate! The second pump is just a second appliance if the other retained crew needs to get called in for a shout! :)
@@cornwall9994 is it a busy station then? Not many dual retained stations around..
@@davewhite768 They're fairly busy for retained because they're quite close to Exeter. DSFRS do have a lot of two pump retained stations. I think they have 122 pumps spread across 83 stations.
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Why do retained fire fighters always use old engines? I thought they would use the same engines as the full timers would.
We do. At least in HWFRS, our pumps are sometimes even better but always equal. D&S seems to have a lot of old pumps passed down to retained for some reason