The Pontypandy Fire Station is a large full-time fire station based in the small coastal village of Pontypandy. It mainly covers Pontypandy and the surrounding forestry and coastal parts of the southern area. Originally, it was a small station which housed Jupiter, but after some time, it was gradually extended to also house Venus as well.
The Fire Station is also a workplace for Pontypandy Fire Service and its firefighters.
In Heroes of the Storm, the fire station was demolished and completely rebuilt with a new and modern outlook. The current fire station now has four vehicle bays and can hold up to five rescue vehicles.
In Series 16, the left side of the station received a full rebuild which includes a new entrance bay and control room, as well as a helipad and five slides. The right side of the station has been retained but heavily refurbished.
Layout[]
Ground Floor[]
- Entryway: This is the entrance to the station via the front double doors or the ones left to the fire station it has a lift which leads onto the other levels of the extension, as well as having two double doors leading the appliance bay. there is also a small set of stairs leading to the mezzanine level.
- Appliance Bays: This is where Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Hydrus and Phoenix are parked between call outs. There are also lockers which one contains two rolls of training hoses, nozzles, jaws of life and a stair chair and the others containing the firefighters' personal belongings. All the firefighters' turnout uniforms are on display with the corresponding logo above it, various safety and instruction posters and the turnout alarm. There are two exits for the slides as well as the two fire poles
- Briefing room: The briefing room is where the firefighters are briefed of training or certain situations.
- Shower Room: The shower room has only ever been known to be used in the Annual story, The New Power Hose!, but a door for a shower room is still seen next to the briefing room in the current station.
Mezzanine Level[]
- This was reintroduced in series 16's extension as previously being apparent in series 5, it contains various photos of the fire service as well as tables and chairs for the crew to use.
Second Floor[]
- Kitchen: This room contains; a worktop with a gas cooker (with steam extractor), a fridge, a table with six chairs, a fire exit, a sliding pole, door to the balcony, a water dispenser, blue checkered carpets and wooden flooring and above the entryway is the heritage emergency bell.
- TV Area: This area contains; a sofa, an armchair, a television, a desk with a computer, a bookshelf and a sliding pole.
- Balcony: The balcony is where the fire station flag is raised every day.
Third Floor[]
- Control Room: The control room has numerous amounts desks with a chair and a computer. There is also a control area with a headset, microphone, a touchscreen data terminal, the Map-screen 700 and the famous red button for the heritage Bell and turnout alarm. The control is similar to the one in the police station.
Helipad[]
- It was introduced in series 16 allowing for Wallaby 2 and the Police Helicopter to land on the fire station.
Station Yard[]
- Training Tower: The training tower is used for the firefighters to practice certain emergencies which they might come across.
- Smoke training room: The smoke training room is a small dark room connected to the training tower for the firefighters to do their BA training.
- Station Rear: This is where the firefighters do their training and is where the four main outlets for hose training are located, off which three contain water and one containing sticky foam. This is also where the Mobile Command Unit, Jupiter's trailer and the Hovercraft are kept.
Firefighters[]
- Chief Fire Officer Horatio Boyce (Chief officer for the fire service, occasional visits)
- Station Officer Norris Steele (Senior officer in charge of the fire station)
- Samuel "Sam" Peyton-Jones (Firefighter and team leader)
- Elvis Cridlington (Firefighter, mess manager)
- Penny Morris (Firefighter, full time since Series 5, fitness trainer, team leader since Series 13)
- Arnold McKinley (Firefighter, since Heroes of the Storm)
- Ellie Phillips (Firefighter, since Heroes of the Storm)
- Jerry Lee Cridlington (Firefighter from Newtown, fills in for absences)
- Dickie Grubb (Firefighter from Newtown, fills in for absences)
- Trevor Evans (Auxiliary fireman, original series only)
- Mike Flood (Reserve firefighter)
- Charlie Jones (Reserve firefighter)
- Helen Flood (Reserve firefighter)
- Dilys Price (Reserve firefighter)
Fire Station's Dog[]
Vehicles[]
The vehicles at the Fire Station include:
- Jupiter (Turntable Ladder Combined Fire Engine) - Driven by Fireman Sam and occasionally the rest of the crew
- Venus (Rescue Tender) - Driven by Penny Morris and occasionally the rest of the crew
- Mercury (Quad Bike) - Ride by Fireman Sam, Station Officer Steele, Elvis Cridlington, Penny Morris and Ellie Phillips
- Hydrus (Off-road and Water Rescue Vehicle) - Driven by Fireman Sam and Penny Morris
- Phoenix (Crane) - Driven by Ellie Phillips, Penny Morris, Arnold McKinley, Elvis Cridlington and Fireman Sam [sticker only until Series 15]
- Mobile Command Unit (Base of operations at large incidents) - Driven by Fireman Sam and Station Officer Steele
- Hovercraft (Amphibious Ocean Rescue Vehicle used at emergencies on the Tidal Flats) - Piloted by Ellie Phillips and Fireman Sam
Station Bays[]
Trivia[]
- The original fire station was built 50 years before the events of Safe with Sam.
- From Series 1 - 4, the station only had a small bay for Jupiter, a kitchen/sitting area and Steele's Office.
- The original fire station seems to be loosely based on Clevedon Fire Station in Somerset.
- In Series 1 - 4 Station Officer Steele (or whoever happened to be at the station) would always push a button on the printer desk after tearing off the call report, most likely to notify Fire Control that they had received the call and were mobile to an incident, however since Series 5 whoever tears off the call report doesn't even though the box is still visible in Series 5.
- In Series 1 - 4, Fire Control sets off the bell, however, ever since Series 5 usually one of the firefighters at the station pushes a button to set it off. Occasionally this appears to not be the case, as sometimes the bell rings without the button being activated, although it may have been off-screen.
- In Series 1 - 4, there were two separate horizontally opening doors, but ever since Series 5 they were replaced with first a single vertically opening door and then several vertically opening ones.
- In Series 1 - 4, the station had a sign above one of the windows, written in both English and Welsh, but ever since Series 5 it has been absent, most likely to make translations easier. This is also why none of the Pontypandy Fire Service's vehicles have any lettering on them or why there's a lack of written signage around Pontypandy.
- In Series 1 - 5, the door(s) had no logos on them, but ever since Series 6 both/all doors have the Pontypandy Fire Service logo on them.
- In Series 5, it gained a gym at the opposite end of the kitchen by the pole and the engine bay was rebuilt to house Venus as well as the new Jupiter.
- In Series 5, the bay that housed Venus was always off-screen, with Venus appearing from the right side of the screen, however ever since Series 6 Venus now has a bay next to Jupiter. As a result, the single door was split up into two doors with a column in-between.
- From Series 6 - 9, the interior was completely rebuilt with the kitchen upstairs and the office downstairs.
- In Series 6 - 9, a picture of the Fire Brigade from Series 5 can be found in Station Officer Steele's office.
- In Series 6 the station gained a training tower at the rear, which was later taken down brick by brick and rebuilt at the front when the new station was built.
- In the SiF's interview with Sam Barlow, there were plans to make the fire station look more similar to a military bunker, until they realised that they were taking it the wrong direction.
- Since Series 10, the station now has wig wag lights at the start of the driveway.
- From Series 10 onward, the BA sets underneath the helmets are replaced with the firefighters' turnout gear as they now have station wear.
- When the new station was built, they knocked down a row of houses, rebuilt part of the stone wall and moved the driveway in order to expand the ground area to meet up with the road for the station to fit.
- Jupiter and Phoenixās bays have exhaust extractors.
- Outside the Control Room, there is a picture of the original fire station with Jupiter from 1987.
- In the control room, they still have the picture of the crew from Series 5. Station Officer Steele comments in Heroes of the Storm, "Couldn't have a new fire station without the old picture..."
- In Series 11, the blue lights above each bay now flash instead of rotating.
- In Series 16, the station underwent several changes, including a new section built on the right of the original building, slides wrapping around the new section, a new training tower, a much larger driveway, car parking spaces and a third ramp down to the road on the far left.
Goofs[]
- From Series 1-5, all the rooms were on 1 level, but there was still a sliding pole which led to apparently nowhere.