Cleveland Fire Brigade provides fire and rescue services to 4 local authorities covering nearly 600km2. The area has a combined population of nearly 560,000 people living in 237,776 homes.
The map below shows the whole of the Cleveland area and the red pins are the location of our fire stations. Click on them to view more information.
Cleveland is 7th most densely populated fire authority area in England. Only the big Metropolitan Brigades are more densely populated, but Cleveland shares many of the inner-city-type problems that are a key feature of the Metropolitan Brigades.
Despite considerable industrial decline over recent years, the area is still a major production centre for the oil and chemical industries. Much of its production is centred on the mouth of the River Tees in 34 top-tier and 6 low-tier Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) sites. In addition Hartlepool has a nuclear power station with two reactors and there is a gas power station at Wilton, both producing electricity for the National Grid. Finally the Tees and Hartlepool Port handles up to 50 million tonnes of cargo a year making it the largest UK port by tonnage.
Nowhere in Europe will you find so many people living in close proximity to such high levels of industrial and chemical fire risk. When you put this alongside one of the highest rates of arson and high rates of fire and antisocial behaviour, Cleveland Fire Brigade has some of the toughest challenges to meet in all the whole of the UK fire and rescue services.
It meets these challenges through the work or 4 districts serving each of its local authority areas:
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