Address: High Street, Earls Barton, NN6 0JG
Station Manager: Lee Dawson
Contact details can be found here
Drill Night: Wednesday 19:00-21:00
Earls Barton is an on-call station based on the village’s High Street, with 11 firefighters responding to incidents by pager as and when they happen.
Crews have access to a Scania fire engine, and cover a large patch including Earls Barton itself – which has a population of more than 5,000 people – as well as the nearby villages of Mears Ashby, Castle Ashby, Grendon, Denton and Yardley Hastings, an overall population of more than 20,000 people.
The Earls Barton area includes a busy section of the A45 dual carriageway, which means that the crew need to be ready to be called to potential road traffic collisions on these busy transport routes.
The on-call crew will also be called to major incidents in the Northampton and Wellingborough area to help wholetime crews.
Water safety is also a high risk, with the River Nene and canal network running through, while a number of residential and commercial properties – as well as large sections of agricultural land and livestock – are situated on a flood plain within the patch. This presents the crew with the opportunity to visit these areas, including the White Mills Marina to the south of the village, to hand out water and boat safety advice.
The crew will undergo regular training at their weekly Wednesday evening drill nights, where they will maintain skills through drills on incidents such as road traffic collisions, hazardous materials and water safety.
