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Request detail:
Please could you endeavour to answer the following questions within 20 working days, as specified under its clauses.
Please could you break down the below information per month (from the 1st to the 30th or 31st) for each month from April to December in 2020.
How many "deliberate fire incidents" did firefighters from fire stations under the control of your fire service attend over this period?
How many times were fire crews from fire stations under the control of your fire service called upon to help with other emergency responses under duty to collaborate legislation?
On how many occasions did firefighters from fire stations under the control of your fire service: assist in taking samples for COVID-19 antigen testing; drive ambulance transport not on blue-lights (excluding known COVID-19 patients) to outpatient appointments or to receive urgent care; provide driving Instruction by FRS driver trainers to deliver training for non-Service personnel to drive ambulances (not on blue-lights).
Clarification email received 05 January 2021
In your response to the question in another one of my FOI requests, sent on 1 January. about how many deliberate fire incidents did firefighters attend between April and December (1st to 31st) 2020, please could you also tell me how many deliberate fire incidents firefighters attended between April and December 2019 (broken down by month). If time under the act does not allow for this, I am happy for the information for 2019 to be treated as a new request.
In addition, please could you ignore the question about how many times firefighters were called upon to help with other emergency responses under duty to collaborate legislation.
Response detail:
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. Please see responses below.
In your response to the question in another one of my FOI requests, sent on 1 January. about how many deliberate fire incidents did firefighters attend between April and December (1st to 31st) 2020, please could you also tell me how many deliberate fire incidents firefighters attended between April and December 2019 (broken down by month). If time under the act does not allow for this, I am happy for the information for 2019 to be treated as a new request. See attached spreadsheet
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