Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service Plan 2011 to 2014

Group areas

Basingstoke and Deane

The Basingstoke and Deane group is in North Hampshire. It covers an area of approximately 220 square miles and has a population of over 160,000 people.
The Basingstoke and Deane group has five stations in Basingstoke, Overton, Whitchurch, Tadley and Kingsclere.
The group has both built-up and rural areas. 90% of the area is covered by farms, woodland and forest. Major road (M3, A33, A34, A339) and rail networks run through the area connecting Hampshire with rest of the country.
Our community risk profile shows that our key risk areas include families on low incomes and elderly people with high care needs, living in local-authority and housing-association properties. By identifying people and properties at risk we can work in these areas and provide a more effective and focused approach to reducing risk. Our prevention work will focus on these groups of people in order to make life safer in our communities.

Incidents

Basingstoke and Deane group incident map (opens new window) - this map shows the locations of primary fires and road traffic accidents in the Basingstoke and Deane group between 2008 to 2009 and 2009 to 2010. The majority of the incidents in this group occur in and around the city of Basingstoke, which is why we have a wholetime station situated there. We also have four retained stations situated around the rest of the group to ensure we are able to attend incidents quickly.


Type of incident	Number of incidents 2008 to 2009	Number of incidents 2009 to 2010
Property and vehicle fires	220	208
Bin and grass fires	220	233
Chimney fires	39	31
False alarms not meant to waste time (good intent)	297	196
Automatic fire alarms	390	265
False alarms meant to waste time (malicious calls)	34	22
Road traffic accidents (collisions)	152	107
Special service calls (other help we give - not always emergencies)	192	126
Total	1544	1188
Co-responders (working with the ambulance service on medical emergencies)	3	24

If you would like to contact the Basingstoke and Deane Group, please email: group.bstokedeane@hantsfire.gov.uk.