Windermere Fire Station
Windermere Fire Station
Ellerthwaite Road
Windermere
Cumbria
LA23 2AH
Tel: 0300 303 8623 Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Training Evening: Wednesday 1900 hrs to 2100 hrs.
Email: enquiries.fire@cumbria.gov.uk
Windermere fire station is staffed by On-call Firefighters and houses one fire engine and a Wildfire Land Rover.
The risks from the hotel and holiday industry increases several fold during the summer periods with visitors occupying the many hundreds of hotels and boarding houses within the area. In addition to the normal run of incidents expected in a rural area a particular challenge is presented by properties on islands. Other risks include open farmland and fells which brings the danger of agricultural and wildfires, firefighters receive specialist training to enable them to deal with wildfires.
Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service carry out Safe and Well Visits; please use the link below for more information.
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Next nearest supporting Fire Engine
Staveley - 4 miles
Ambleside - 6 miles
Kendal - 9 miles
| Station Area | 8,100 population |
| Crewing Type | On-Call |
| Fire Engines | 1 fire engine and 1 Wildfire Land Rover |
Windermere is a large village situated in the heart of the Lake District. As Windermere is a famous holiday destination the resident population increases significantly during summer periods who occupy the many hundreds of hotels and boarding houses within the area
significantly increasing the sleeping risk. Apart from the risks from the hotel and holiday industry, Lakeland Limited, which is an international company, has a large distribution and retail centre within the village which employs hundreds of people and is a multi-million pound operation.
One of the most serious fires that the station attended in recent times involved the unique Round House on Belle Isle in the middle of Lake Windermere. Over the Christmas period of 1994 a fire caused extensive damage to the property and at the height of the blaze 80 personnel were required to deal with the incident. This proved extremely challenging as all these people and equipment had to be ferried over using boats provided by the Lake Wardens in the early hours of the morning of the fire.
The area contains:
1 Heritage Site; Brockhole
8 Grade I listed buildings and 19 Grade II listed buildings
5 Sites of Specific Scientific Interest
1 Site Specific Risk; Belle Isle House
Bowness Bay, The Glebe and Whitecross Bay are susceptible to flooding and during the recent floods of 2009 significant areas and businesses around the lake were under several feet of water. Other areas of both Windermere and Bowness suffer from flash flooding and surface water run off generally resulting in demand to pump out flooded basements and cellars.
The table shows the number of incidents that have occurred within a nominal area assigned to the station (as shown on the map in the station profile). This is different to the number of incidents attended by fire engines which are based at the station, as they may attend incidents outside their station area.
| Fire | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | |
| All emergencies attended | 81 | 65 | 73 | |
| All Fires | 19 | 16 | 21 | |
| Accidental primary dwelling fires | 7 | 5 | 5 | |
| Secondary fires | 2 | 5 | 6 | |
| Chimney fires | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Deliberate primary fires | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| Deliberate secondary fires | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| False Alarms | ||||
| All false alarms | 40 | 40 | 39 | |
| Special Service Calls | ||||
| Non Road Traffic Collisions Special Service Calls | 19 | 3 | 10 | |
| Road Traffic Collisions Special Service Calls | 3 | 6 | 3 |
Response times
On-call fire engine
| C70P1 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 |
| Average crew turnout time (time it takes the crew to respond to the station) | 4 mins 1 secs | 4 mins 19 secs | 4 mins 27 sec |
| Average response time (time it takes the crew to arrive at the incident from the station) | 7 mins 14 sec | 8 mins 17 secs | 9 mins 55 secs |
| Number of incidents attended by fire engine C70P1 | 97 | 89 | 97 |
Availability
On-call fire engine
| C70P1 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 |
| Total Availability | 98% | 96% | 92% |
| Mon - Fri (08:00 - 18:00) | 97% | 89% | 84% |
| Mon - Thurs (18:00 - 08:00) | 100% | 100% | 99% |
| Fri - Mon (18:00 - 08:00) | 98% | 98% | 93% |
Further information for this fire station is available on a number of themes at the Cumbria Intelligence Observatory, including:
Population
Crime and Community
Health and Social Care
Housing
Economy and Employment
Environment
Children and Young People
Please visit www.cumbriaobservatory.org.uk and choose a fire station area for your particular theme of interest.