Address: Mereway, Northampton, NN4 8BW
Station Manager: Scott Hirons
Contact details can be found here
Mereway Fire Station is a wholetime station that is crewed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days of the year by almost 30 firefighters on four watches (Red, Blue, White and Green).
The station patch has a mix of urban residential properties in Northampton, as well as rural properties in villages such as Blisworth, Harpole, Horton and Roade.
It also covers several large areas of industry, including Brackmills Industrial Estate, and the commercial parks in Swan Valley and Grange Park.
Due to its location near several major roads, Mereway is regularly called to road traffic collisions on the Northamptonshire stretch of the M1 motorway, as well as on the A45 near Northampton. The station has an on-site vehicle compound where they can set up mock road traffic collisions for training purposes.
Firefighters at Mereway are one of two crews in Northamptonshire that are trained in water rescue, the other being Wellingborough. With flooding identified as a growing risk for the county over the next few years, the skills of the Mereway crew being able to work in fast moving water will become even more important. A video below explains how the water rescue crews keep their training up to date to ensure they can keep people safe.
As well as serving their part of Northampton, Mereway crews can be deployed to incidents across the country in the event of a significant incident or planned large-scale event such as the British Formula One Grand Prix held at Silverstone. The crew work closely with the Joint Operations Team – some of which are based at Mereway – to provide additional resources at the circuit whilst maintaining the required level of emergency assistance throughout the county.
At Mereway there is one main fire engine, and a technical rescue vehicle which has specialist rescue equipment on board, and a water rescue boat.
It is also home to the Joint Command Unit, a large vehicle which can act as a control room for both fire and police at major incidents where there are more than five pumps in attendance. The vehicle (pictured below) can relay live drone footage of sites which help officers make tactical decision on how best to contain major fires and prevent them from spreading further.
Mereway also hosts the Multi-Agency Specialist Assessment Team vehicle (MASAT) which enables two or more representatives from different agencies to attend pre-planned events and operations of incidents.
