Ulverston Fire Station

Local stations

• Barrow - 9 miles
• Broughton - 10 miles
• Grange - 15 miles

17,400 population

Crewing type

Wholetime and On-call

Fleet

• 2 fire engines

The market town of Ulverston is situated on the busy A590 trunk road in the centre of the Furness Peninsula in the south of the county. The population of the Station area is approximately 17,500 people, with 8,000 households.

The original Fire Station was built in 1886, and is still in use by Ulverston St. John's Ambulance Brigade and the second Station was opened in 1974. The current station opened in 2021 is a combined Furness Peninsula Blue Light Hub with Cumbria Fire & Rescue Service, Cumbria Constabulary & Northwest Ambulance Service all operating from the station hub.

 The Station provides fire cover to the town and parts of High and Low Furness, a rural area of approximately 10,000 hectares, and is bounded by fells to the north and west, farmland to the south and Morecambe Bay to the east. The main industry in the town is the GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical production plant. There are a number of electronic, light engineering and specialist engineering factories in the town together with hotels, guest houses and other types of holiday accommodation throughout the area. Other industries include farming (the Agricultural and Livestock Market is held every Thursday) and forestry.

Further information for this fire station is available on a number of themes at the Cumbria Intelligence Observatory, including:

• Population 

• Crime and Community

• Health and Social Care

• Housing

• Economy and Employment

• Environment

• Children and Young People

Please visit www.cumbriaobservatory.org.uk and choose a fire station area for your particular theme of interest.

The area contains:

• 1 Grade I listed building and 11 Grade II listed buildings
• 4 Sites of Specific Scientific Interest
• 3 Site Specific Risks; George Barker and Sons Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline Marl International Ltd, Oxley Developments Co. Ltd
• Dragley Beck runs through parts of Ulverston and has caused localised flooding to parts of the Town, mainly around the North Road and Steel Street areas.

Rescue of large animals, farm and barn fires are a part of the Station workload. Firefighters have also been involved with the RNLI, Coastguard and other agencies in rescues from the sand and mud flats of Morecambe Bay and also attending some severe flooding incidents in recent years.   Firefighters attend a large number of road traffic collisions, mainly on the busy A590, the main route into south Cumbria.