1. EMERGENCY COVER REVIEW (ECR) 2013 DAVID RUSSEL ASSISTANT CHIEF FIRE OFFICER LANCASHIRE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE

2. WHAT IS AN EMERGENCY COVER REVIEW? Strategic County-wide review of: - Fire stations (39) - Fire engines (60) - Operational staff (1100) To ensure they are in the right place and in the right numbers to respond according to the levels of risk and activity. Duty Systems Operated: Wholetime (WT) / 4 watches / £1M. Day Crewing Plus (DCP) / 1 watch / £600K. Day Crewing (DC) / 2 watches / £600K / 5 mins delay night. Retained Duty System (RDS) / £100K / 5 mins delay.

3. EMERGENCY COVER REVIEW HEADLINE INFORMATION Proposals within the Emergency Cover Review 2013 will: Save £5.3m over the next four years. Involve no station closures – maintain all 39 fire stations. Maintain service to the public. Retain 55 of the 60 fire engines. Reduction in County-level performance of -1% or increase average attendance time of 16 seconds to all incident types. Introduce a Technical Rescue Station – enhanced rescue provision.

4. FINANCIAL CONTEXT Operating environment – significant financial challenge. Faced with a 25% cut in Government grant. At least £10m savings required by April 2016. Programme of organisational reviews initiated. £5m savings identified from “back office” services - costs concentrated in emergency response provision – cannot make the required level of savings without presenting ‘proposals for change’. Strong track record – already saved £15m since 2005. Since 2004 we have reduced firefighter posts by 25%. Savings delivered = public and firefighter safety remain paramount. Scale of savings are unprecedented – so to is the reduction in operational demand.

5. OPERATIONAL CONTEXT Risk and Activity significantly declined in recent years – at all time lows for all incident types. Over the last decade: -Fires dropped by two thirds - down from 14,500 in 2002 to +5,000 in 2012. -Casualties in house fires reduced by 68%. Since 2007 duty days lost from staff accidents down 76%. ‘Lancashire Fire Risk Map’ illustrates changing landscape = safer landscape.

6. LANCASHIRE FIRE RISK MAP CHANGING LANDSCAPE = SAFER LANDSCAPE Critical Fire Risk 2006Critical Fire Risk 2013

7. EMERGENCY COVER REVIEW APPROACH TAKEN To ensure ‘proposals for change’: 1. Reflect identified risk and activity. 2. Maintain service to the public. 3. Represent ‘least impact’ on County-level performance. ‘Modelled Performance’ alongside ‘Professional Judgement’. -Computer modelling software.

8. ECR MODELLING BASELINE Resources Total Stations=39 Total Pumps=60 Wholetime=16 Day Crewing Plus=8 Day Crewed=4 Retained Duty System =32 Performance Headline=94.8% Critical Incidents CF 1 st Pump=89% CF 2 nd Pump=89.9% Critical SS=88.6% Average Response Time =6 minutes 44 seconds

9. YEAR 22015-16 LocationCurrent Resources ProposalProposed Resources Bamber BridgeMove wholetime fire engine to DCP and relocate to Chorley Chorley Move wholetime fire engine to DCP and remove the Retained Duty System fire engine USARN/AMove vehicles and function to ChorleyN/A YEAR 2 –IMPACT Reduction in staff posts WT (RDS)Savings realised Current YearCumulativeCurrent YearCumulative -42(- 10)-66(-18)£1,695,216£2,702,314 YEAR 2 PROPOSAL FOR CHANGE IMPACT – COUNTY LEVEL Headline Performance Impact (change) 94.5% Overall Fire Engine Response Average6 minutes 51 seconds Change+ 7 seconds Fire Engines57(- 1 Wholetime-2 Retained Duty System)

10. IMPACT IN BAMBER BRIDGE REMOVE 1 WHOLETIME FIRE ENGINE Reduction in WT staff postsSavings realised -14£398,375 YEAR 2 PROPOSAL FOR CHANGE IMPACT – LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL PERFORMANCE IMPACTPERFORMANCEAVERAGE RESPONSE Headline Performance Impact90.7%8 min 33 secs (+ 1 min 37 secs) CRITICAL FIRE First Fire Engine83.1%7 min 21 secs(+ 1 min 40 secs) Second Fire Engine91.7%9 min 8 secs(+ 1 min 3 secs) CRITICAL SPECIAL SERVICE First Fire Engine82.7%9 min 6 secs(+ 1 min 37 secs)

11. YEAR 4 – FINAL IMPACT Reduction in staff posts WT (RDS)Savings realised Current YearCumulativeCurrent YearCumulative -48(0)-142(-18)£1,856,664£5,354,978 FINAL IMAPCT – COUNTY LEVEL Headline Performance Impact (change) 93.8% Overall Fire Engine Response Average7 minutes 0 seconds Change+ 16 seconds Fire Engines55(- 3 Wholetime-2 Retained Duty System)

12. SUMMARY Proposals for change - “least worse” options. Removal of fire engines will ‘impact’ on County-level and local-level performance. The ‘impact’ on performance will be felt more at a local-level. The ‘impact’ – must be considered alongside reducing risk and incidents. Reduction in County-level performance of 1% - set against some of the best emergency response standards in England. Proposals represent ‘optimum’ range of options - carry least impact on County-level performance. ECR – not a fixed plan.

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