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Request detail:
Please supply me with data relating to fires on balconies on residential buildings in your area, as follows;
· How many fires involving balconies occurred in total between 1st August 2021 and 31st July 2022?
· In the same period, how many fires occurred where balconies where found to have contributed to the spread of the fire across the external walls?
· Please provide data on the causes of any fires that started on balconies in the period (ie; barbecue, discarded cigarette, electrical appliance fault, etc) and please provide the number of occurrences for each cause.
If your incident recording system does not include "balcony" as a recorded location, could you please perform a search on free text fields in your database for the term, as I have found in the past that this often returns useable data.
Response detail:
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. Please refer below:
· How many fires involving balconies occurred in total between 1st August 2021 and 31st July 2022? - Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service does not routinely record this information. A search of our Incident Reporting System using key words has revealed there were no incidents that involved balcony fires for the specified date range.
· In the same period, how many fires occurred where balconies where found to have contributed to the spread of the fire across the external walls? - Please see response above.
· Please provide data on the causes of any fires that started on balconies in the period (ie; barbecue, discarded cigarette, electrical appliance fault, etc) and please provide the number of occurrences for each cause. - Please see response above.
