Harrogate Fire Station Official Opening

The Lord Crathorne, Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire will be joined by North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority (NYFRA) representatives, local school children and over 100 other dignitaries when he officially opens the new £2.4million Harrogate Fire Station on Monday 13th October.

The celebrations will include the presentation of prizes to 15 local school children who took part in an art competition. NYFRA asked primary schools across Harrogate to help promote community fire safety by running the art competition for pupils, to produce posters with either road safety or fire safety themes. The winners from each school will be at the event to collect their prizes and to see their artwork displayed around the station.

Councillor John Fort BEM, Chair of North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority says: “Personnel at Harrogate Fire Station have a well established relationship with local groups and partner agencies. I am therefore delighted to celebrate the official opening of the station and to acknowledge the vast amount of work North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service does in partnership with other key agencies and organisations to help keep our communities safe places to live.”

Everyone attending the event will also be given the opportunity to have a tour of the station and its complement of emergency vehicles, as well as seeing a display from the Service’s extrication team and a chip pan fire demonstration after the unveiling of a commemorative stone plaque. There will also be exhibitions from partner agencies including the Harrogate Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership.

Chief Fire Officer Nigel Hutchinson says: “This new fire station is very much designed to be a community fire station as well as a modern base for additional emergency vehicles which now operate out of the station, including a High Volume Pumping unit for use at widespread flooding incidents.    

“I am confident that this new fire station will provide huge benefits to the service and its partners, to help us become even more accessible to local communities and to address local needs.”