Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

Call Signs and Officers

Received: 

Friday, 27 December, 2024

Responded: 

Wednesday, 24 January, 2024

Request detail: 

Please could you provide the follow:

1) Your "Airwave" National Identification Code.

- For Example- For your colleagues in South Wales Fire & Rescue Service, it is:

- WS (Identifies the service) 01 (Station Number) P (Appliance Type - Pump) 1 (Allocated Number)

2) How many officers (from Station Commander to CFO) who are currently employed by SFRS.

- If possible, are you able to give me some statistics of officers that were employed from around 2016 to current. I.e. 36 Station Commanders in 2016, 53 Station Commanders in 2023.

Bariatric Rescues

Received: 

Saturday, 23 December, 2023

Responded: 

Tuesday, 23 January, 2024

Request detail: 

Dear FOI Officer

I am writing to request some information under the Freedom of Information Act in relation to the rescue of a “bariatric person”

I understand that in April 2012 a new category relating to obese people was created for your incident reporting systems.

Could you please tell me how many call outs you received to move Bariatric or obese people from their homes or to rescue them during the following calendar years:  2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019?

Electric or Hybrid vehicles powered by lithium

Received: 

Wednesday, 6 December, 2023

Responded: 

Friday, 5 January, 2024

Request detail: 

Under the Freedom of Information Act/Environmental Information Regulations,
I would like to request the following information:

1. How may fires have your Service attended which involved electric or Hybrid
vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries between the following dates 1/1/21
– 1/11/23?

2. Of these fires attended in how many of these was the cause recorded as a
fault on the lithium-ion battery?

3. Of the fires attended how many involved the lithium battery cells?

Electrical Safety

Received: 

Wednesday, 6 December, 2023

Responded: 

Friday, 5 January, 2024

Request detail: 

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service. 

Please could you list all of the call outs made to domestic homes and businesses due to fires related to electrical hazards between December 2020 – 1st December 2023. Please may I request that information follow the below outline: 

Incident Statistics for A5 Montford Bridge/Shrawardine

Received: 

Tuesday, 6 February, 2024

Responded: 

Tuesday, 6 February, 2024

Request detail: 

the residents of Montford and Shrawardine have road safety concerns regarding the junctions at Montford Bridge and Shrawardine on the A5, due to the amount of incidents we are having. We have therefore arranged a meeting with National Highways, Shropshire Council and the local Police to discuss this section of road and potential safety measures that could be put in place. What would be really useful for the meeting would be the statistics of the amount of incidents Shropshire Fire & Rescue have attended on Montford Bridge and Shrawardine junction on the A5.

Wildfires

Received: 

Thursday, 9 November, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 4 December, 2023

Request detail: 

Can I please request, in the form of a spreadsheet such as Excel or CSV file, information on wildfires attended by the fire and rescue service.

Battery Fires

Received: 

Tuesday, 7 November, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 4 December, 2023

Request detail: 

We would like to investigate whether there has been an increase in fires caused by items that contain batteries (including lithum-ion batteries). For instance, toys, laptops, electric toothbrushes etc.

Therefore, under Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations, I would like to request the following information:

-The number of household fires caused (or thought to be caused) by items containing batteries from 01.01.2021 to 31.12.2021

Lithium Battery fires

Received: 

Monday, 30 October, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 27 November, 2023

Request detail: 

We would like to investigate whether there has been an increase in fires caused by items that contain lithium-ion batteries, particularly items that children or young people have access to, such as toys, phones and laptops etc.

Therefore, under Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations, I would like to request the following information:

-The number of household fires caused (or thought to be caused) by lithium-ion batteries in toys, toothbrushes, phones and laptops from 01.01.2021 to 31.12.2021

House fire data

Received: 

Friday, 20 October, 2023

Responded: 

Tuesday, 14 November, 2023

Request detail: 

I would like to submit a Freedom of Information request to access the following  information.

If possible, please supply this information in an excel spreadsheet – I have attached an example template in case this is helpful.

Please note: For the following questions, please can you share annual data from 2018 to the present day (latest published data), also split by month if possible. If the request is likely to go beyond the allowed time frame, please respond to the above questions in order of priority.

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