Flood support crews stand by.FIRE crews in West Yorkshire West Yorkshire, former metropolitan county, N central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county largely embraced the Leeds conurbation and comprised five metropolitan districts: Calderdale, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, and Kirklees. are on standby to again help colleagues in flood-hit Cumbria. The Fire and Rescue Services' National Co-ordination Centre (FRSNCC), which is hosted by West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service The West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service is the county-wide, statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, England. It is administered by a joint authority of 22 people who are appointed annually from the five Metropolitan Boroughs of , has played a key role in the deployment of specialist teams and equipment to tackle the Cumbrian floods. Emergency control operators based at the Birkenshaw centre, sent several high volume pumps to Cumbria at the height of the floods and even more have been on standby, including West Yorkshire's equipment. |
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