The new centre will receive all 999 emergency fire and rescue calls across the county and represents West Yorkshire Authority’s continuing commitment to Making West Yorkshire safer.
The current centre will be moving this summer from its present location at WYFRS’s Birkenshaw headquarters, where it has been situated for the last 40 years.
This project is in collaboration with South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue which allows both services to provide fallback arrangements; enabling each to provide assistance to one another where needed. The collaboration has involved a significant joint investment in the procurement of a new state-of-the-art mobilising and communications system. The partnership will ultimately provide improvements in service delivery and much needed efficiencies.
Brigade control originally came to the Birkenshaw headquarters in 1974 when the West Yorkshire Fire Service was formed and the West Riding, County Borough, and City Brigades were amalgamated.
Back then, mobilising staff used simple card wheel indexes to find addresses, a system which continued until 1987, when the brigade’s first computerised mobilising system was brought in. Communications packages have advanced over the years with upgrades to accommodate the latest software.
Project Director, Deputy Chief Fire Officer Steve Beckley said: “The new Command and Control Centre in Leeds is a major step forward and has been designed to house the very latest in emergency control centre technology. A collaboration project with South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service will see the introduction of the new system later in the summer.”
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