Our Station
Built in 1981, Newcastle West Community Fire Station is located on West Denton way, West Denton on the western side of the City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The council wards encompassed within its boundary being Newburn, Westerhope, Blakelaw, Denton, Lemington and part of the Woolsington Ward.
The station has two fire appliances and one Command Support Unit, and is staffed by 56 Full time fire-fighters and several support staff. The staff are the main asset and, in addition to responding to emergencies, undertake a range of Community Safety (CS) activities that are primarily aimed at preventing fires and deaths and injuries in fires.
The station includes a Community Safety Centre, which houses the Community Safety Team and Young Fire-fighters Association (YFA). The Community Safety Centre has modern IT presentation capabilities, a meeting room and a computer suite, including access to the Internet, for further educational learning. This entire facility, which has been designed to be fully accessible and hence, enable usage by all of our visitors, is adjacent to a fully functional fire station.
The Area
The geographical area covered by this Station mainly consists of residential property, ranging from the more socially deprived neighbourhoods located within isolated pockets to relatively affluent dormitory areas. Few commercial or industrial premises exist within this Station area and those which do, are constructed in the style of modern, model type 1 light industrial estates.
The population, based on the 2001 Census, is 80,081 persons who are predominantly from Anglo-Saxon background (94.4%) with a relatively small ethnic group (5.6%). There are 35,377dwellings within the Station area with approximately: -
Single parent families occupy 7.9% of dwelling, with 17% single pensioner households.
Levels of unemployment across this area vary from 10.6% for males and 5% for females. These figures reflect the socio-economic groups residing within individual neighbourhoods, which can be linked to the risk of dwelling fires occurring within the area. This is illustrated in the above 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.
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