Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

Warehouse fires / fires caused by vapes / fires in schools

Received: 

Monday, 4 March, 2024

Responded: 

Tuesday, 2 April, 2024

Request detail: 

Under Freedom of Information Act, I would be very grateful if you could provide the following information relating to fires:
1. Warehouse fires: We are interested in the number of fire incidents in warehouses.
a. How many fires in warehouses have you attended in the last three calendar years (2024 - to date, 2023, 2022, 2021)?
b. Per year, please breakdown the above by the following:
c. Extent of damage
d. Cause of fire
2. Fires in Schools: I am seeking to understand how many schools have been impacted by fires and whether sprinklers were present.

Fires in Multi Storey Car Parks

Received: 

Sunday, 25 February, 2024

Responded: 

Tuesday, 19 March, 2024

Request detail: 

I am conducting research on behalf of the Institute of Occupational Safety &
Health ‘s (IOSH) Fire Risk Management Group into the number of car fires
that Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service attended between the years 01 January
1995 – 31 December 2023 (inclusive). I have particular interest in those
fires occurring within multi-storey car parks. I would be grateful if the
information could show:
• The type of fuel in the vehicle of origin (e.g., petrol, diesel, Hybrid
or electric)

Dementia and fire risk

Received: 

Monday, 19 February, 2024

Responded: 

Monday, 18 March, 2024

Request detail: 

Exploring fire risk for people living with dementia and any initiatives in place to reduce risk for this group.  

I wondered if you could share with me the number of fire incidents you attended which involved people living with dementia in the last reporting year? 

Do you have any strategies or policies in place regarding people living with dementia? If so, it would be great to see those.

could you please update my request and provide the following more detailed information (if known)

Listed building fires

Received: 

Thursday, 13 February, 2025

Responded: 

Thursday, 13 March, 2025

Request detail: 

I am writing to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Will you please provide me with:

 

A list of all of names and addresses of all the listed buildings in your covered area that have had fires in the past five years
The number of listed buildings in your covered area that have had fires each year for the last five years
The number of fires in any buildings, listed or not listed, that have occurred in your  covered area over the last five years

Lithium-Ion Battery Related Fires

Received: 

Wednesday, 7 February, 2024

Responded: 

Monday, 4 March, 2024

Request detail: 

I am writing this email to request figures on the number of fires which occurred in a domestic premise caused by lithium-ion batteries (E-bikes and E-Scooters) over the last five years, as well as the data regarding if any members of the public who have sustain any sort of injury as a result of this.

Lithium Battery fires

Received: 

Wednesday, 7 February, 2024

Responded: 

Monday, 4 March, 2024

Request detail: 

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Shropshire Fire and Rescue. Please may you provide me with the following data:

  • Number of lithium battery fires attended over the last 5 years (please include data for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, so far in 2024)

a) Of these how many were the result of an e-bike? (please include data for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, so far in 2024)

1371

Received: 

Wednesday, 31 January, 2024

Responded: 

Monday, 26 February, 2024

Request detail: 

Good afternoon,

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from the Fire Authority. Please may you provide me with:

Electric Bus Fires

Received: 

Friday, 26 January, 2024

Responded: 

Wednesday, 21 February, 2024

Request detail: 

Please could you inform me of the numbers of incidents your brigade has attended for fires on: 

1. electric buses (where the battery was believed to be the cause of the fire)?

2. hybrid-powered buses (those with duel power; electric and usually diesel or petrol where the battery or hybrid power supply was believed to be the cause of the fire)?

If you could break that down for the (financial or calendar) years for 2023, 2022 and 2021, if that data is available.  If there have been any such incidents this year (2024), I would also like to receive that.  

Vehicle Fires

Received: 

Thursday, 25 January, 2024

Responded: 

Thursday, 22 February, 2024

Request detail: 

Please can you provide information regarding the following where available:

1) Number of electric vehicle fires attended for the last 3 financial years

The duration of these incidents

The number and type of appliances sent to these incidents

The fire and rescue service suppression actions at these activities at these incidents(e.g. hosereel/ main branch etc.)

The water volume applied at these incidents

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