About Temple Fire Station
Temple Fire Station (09), Temple Back, Bristol BS1
6EU.
Station Manager: Anthony Jackson
Year station built: 1973
Type of duty system: Wholetime Duty System
Area covered by fire station: 12 square
kilometres of an entirely built up area which includes
the bustling city centre of Bristol and a large number of historic
buildings. You can view a map of the area covered by Temple Fire Station
(PDF 415kb, opens in a new window) here.
Fire appliances: Two 1800 Litre Water
Tenders, one Breathing Apparatus service vehicle, one 100
Litre Midi Tender, one Line Rescue Unit, one Turntable Ladder
and one Rescue Tender. You can find out more about the appliances
at Temple below.
Equipped to serve
There are currently two pumping appliances at Temple Fire
Station. One carries a 13.5 metre ladder and the other a 10
metre ladder. Both are equipped with twin hosereels, first
attack hydraulic cutting gear, a selection of larger hose,
environmental response packs, and four breathing apparatus sets.
The station is also equipped with oxygen resuscitators, two
defibrillators and two thermal imaging cameras
The station also houses a Metz Turntable Ladder that has a
working height of 30 metres. This appliance has a cage permanently
fitted to the top of the ladder and is used to gain access to,
rescue people from and apply water to tall buildings.
Temple Fire Station is equipped with a Rescue Tender. This
appliance carries a large range of specialist rescue equipment
which includes hydraulic cutting equipment, heavy lifting airbags,
winching and lighting equipment.
Temple Fire Station provides all the members of the Avon
Fire & Rescue Service Rope Rescue Team. The specialist
equipment they use (mainly ropes, slings, stretchers, harnesses and
connectors) is carried on the specialist Rope Rescue Vehicle that
is housed at the station.
The final appliance at the station is the Breathing Apparatus
Support Vehicle. This carries 16 breathing apparatus sets, 36
cylinders and equipment to service breathing apparatus sets after
they have been used at an incident. The vehicle is sent to
incidents where large numbers of breathing apparatus sets are being
used.
Protecting your community
Temple Fire Station helps protect the communities within the
wards of Ashley, Cabot, Clifton, Clifton East, Cotham, Lawrence
Hill and Redland.
The area includes multi-storey office buildings, multi-storey
residential buildings, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol University,
Bristol Hippodrome, The Colston Hall and Temple Meads railway
station. The city centre also includes the popular dockside area of
bars, restaurants and nightclubs.
Community Safety Centre
Temple Fire Station has a Community Safety Centre. Here you can
find free internet access, free meeting facilities for community
groups and much more.
Find out
more about Community Safety Centres here, or call
0117 9262061
Our station plan
All Avon Fire & Rescue Service stations produce an Annual
Station Plan, designed to inform the public of the actions and
activities we will be undertaking to make your community safer.
View the Temple Station Plan 2008-09 (PDF 105kb, opens in
a new window)
Would you like to visit Temple Fire Station?
All our 23 fire stations are available for events or station
visits. The hours we like to keep within are; morning visits
11:00am - 12 noon, afternoon visits 2pm - 3pm or after 6pm.
For station visits, we do have a restriction on numbers
of about 20 per visit, so please give us a call if you have
any queries on 0117 9262061 extension 477/478, or fill in the
online
station visit request form. Please specify which
station you would like to visit.
Alternatively you can send a letter requesting a
visit to:
Visits, Avon Fire & Rescue Service, Community Safety, Cleveland
Bridge, Bath, BA2 6PU