DOUNREAY ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT

Stations

1956 to ?    Station at top of the runway

Officer in Charge

1956 to ?                              Station Officer Alf Lunny

2009                                     Fire Chief Kenny Porteous

2015 to 2019 Feburary          Fire Chief Colin Mackay

2019 February                       Station Manager Douglas Cook

Appliances

96     B522RSK     RIV              Ford Transit                                                                                         DNPDE Dounray

46     LYN51         P                 Dennis F2/Dennis                                                    (WPO40332)         DERE Dounray

54     NYV923       EP               Bedford RLHZ/Home Office                                                                   DERE Dounray

58     VOR827       CO2/DP       Bedford J4L/HCB                                                     (CO2/DP/ET)          DERE Dounray

61     UUD388      WrT/CO2     TKM 4X4/Gloster Saro                                                                          AEA Dounray

69     DSK139G     WrT             Bedford TKEL/HCB Angus                                                                      DERE Dounray

73     GSK789L     DPT             Dodge K2210/Carmichael                                                                     DERE Dounray

73     GSK790L     DPT             Dodge K2210/Carmichael                                                                      DERE Dounray

81     ASK398W    RIV              Chubb Persuer                                                                                     AEA Dounray/DO HIAL 1997

89     F433CSK      L2V             Talbot                                                                                                 DNPDE Dounray

96     B522RSK     RIV              Ford Transit                                                                                         DNPDE Dounray

Dennis Sabre is a reserve Reserve WrL

Photos Appliances

Service

2015            Dounreay Fire, Ambulance & Rescue Service

Establishment 2019

                            Equipment                                        Staff
                            3 Water Tender Ladders                  1 Watch Manager
                                                                                    10 Firefighters

There are two watches crewed by 1WM and 5 Ffs.

Notes

Vintage fire brigade photo sparks memories
This photo featured in the “Blast from the Past” page on the communications screens
A little bird told us that Sandy Munro who features in the photograph still lives in Wick. We visited him to get his memories of working on site.
Sandy started work as a Dounreay fireman in June 1956. At this point the Dounreay Materials Test Reactor (DMTR) complex was still being built. He and three other colleagues left Wick Airport to join the Dounreay fire brigade on the same day.
At this point the fire station was located the top of the runway. They had one ambulance and one fire engine. The fire engine pictured was the second engine on site and similar to the article above it was a second hand engine which station officer Alf Lunny drove up from Windscale.
When Sandy started they worked twelve hour shifts from 0700hrs to 1900hrs. This changed once DMTR was operational, recruiting more officers and working on a shift rota.
When Sandy retired after 30 years on site he was presented with a lovely clock which still hangs proudly on his living room wall.
<Photo> From left: Tommy Cook, Peter Harlock, Sandy Munro, Bill Cumming, Bob Campbell, Bill Paterson, Alf Lunny (In photo one ambulance and Braidwood style fire engine.)
(Dounray News December 2015/January 2016 Page 11)

Fire engine finds new role at Dounreay
December 18, 2015
Dounreay has acquired a third fire engine thanks to the NDA’s Asset Register.
Now that Sizewell has defueled, the site has disbanded its fire team, and is looking for new homes for their firefighting equipment.
They put the equipment onto the NDA’s Asset Register, which enables other SLCs to apply for the equipment, and ensures that it is re-used.
The NDA’s database contains assets such as vehicles, trailers, cranes or monitors held within the estate which are available for re-use by SLCs free of charge. The only cost to the SLC is the cost of transport.
Dounreay was looking for a third fire engine to ensure that the site has at least two fire appliances available at all times; to comply with a requirement from the ONR Inspector for Fire Safety.
The fire engine came up the road from Suffolk on the back of a Stevens lorry, and was formally handed over to DSRL by Sizewell’s former fire team leader, Mark Thurston.
NDA Contract Manager John Lawes said: “This is another example of the savings in cost and schedule that can be made from using the Asset Register and we encourage DSRL’s project teams to check it regularly”.
DSRL’s Fire Chief Colin Mackay thanked Mark for his help with arrangements for the fire engine’s journey north, and commented that both SLCs were sharing best practice on learning and development.
He plans to use the fire engine for at least the next decade, as the DFARS back-up appliance.
DSRL is in discussion with Sizewell about other items on the NDA Asset Register.
(Dounray News December 2015/January 2016 Page 11) 

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