About the station
The small town of Featherstone is situated to the east of Wakefield.
The station is in a predominantly rural area with a population of approximately 16,198 people and over 6,000 dwellings.
Featherstone is one of the busiest on-call stations, serving towns and villages as well as the city of Wakefield. Due to its location, crews attend a broad range of incidents from barn fires to high-rise flat fires as well as house fires and road traffic collisions.
With the addition of its special resource, the Command Unit Lite, crews from Featherstone are specially trained in command support and attend large scale incidents all over West Yorkshire.
Featherstone Fire Station is committed to engaging with local communities and the crews can be seen regularly attending local events such as town galas. Currently the station is staffed by one watch commander, two crew commanders and ten firefighters.
Staff at Featherstone all have other employment, some of these employers are: WYFRS (as wholetime firefighters), Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Lin Pac Plastics, Arla foods, Saint-Gobain, Northern Rail, Coca Cola and Ardagh Glass.
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Contact details
Andrew Street
Featherstone
WF7 5NS