South Shields Community Fire Station

Built in 2001, South Shield Community fire station was the first of the purpose built Community Stations built by Tyne and Wear Fire Authority. The station is located on John Reid Road, South Shields and covers the east side of South Tyneside Metropolitan Council and part of Sunderland County Council North. The station covers several council wards; Beacon and Bents, Biddick Hall, Biddick and All Saints, Boldon Colliery, Cleadon and East Boldon, Cleadon Park, Harton, Horsley Hill, Simonside and Rekendyke, West Park, Westoe, Whitburn and Marsden and Whiteleas.

 

The fire station houses 2 fire fighting appliances and a total of 56 fire-fighting and support staff. This station is one of only two that provide Tyne and Wear with a rope rescue capability in addition to the firefighters responding to all types of emergencies. The staff are also the main asset in undertaking a range of Community Safety (CS) activities that are primarily aimed at preventing fires and deaths and injuries in fires.

 

The Community Safety Centre houses the Community Safety Team, Centre Administrator, Young Firefighters Association (YFA), the Arson Task Force (ATF, a collaboration between Fire Brigade and Police personnel) and South Tyneside Council Community Team.

 

The Community Safety Centre also boasts a full media prepared auditorium seating 120, one meeting room and a computer suite for further educational learning. This entire facility is integrated within a fully functional fire station and accessible to all members of our community.

The population, based on South Tyneside council figures 2001, shows that approximately 87500 people live in the area, predominantly from an Anglo-Saxon background (97%) with small ethnic groups (3%) composed primarily of Asian, Black and Chinese. There are in the region of 39,700 homes with approximately: -

 

 

Single parent families occupy 9.6% of dwelling, with 17.9% single pensioner households. Also 29.8% of dwellings are households that have 3 or more dependant children. Levels of unemployment across the area are 15.8% for the male population and 9.3% for the female population. These figures reflect the socio-economic groups residing within the individual neighbourhoods which can link to the risk of dwelling fires occurring within the area. This is illustrated in the map where the red indicates areas where the risk of having a dwelling fire is well above average, orange is above average, yellow is average, blue is below average and green is well below average.

 

The geographical area served by South Shields Fire Station varies greatly from: -

 

 

If you wish to know more about the specific fire service issues in your area and how we intend to address these, details have been included in our Station Plan.