Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

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.

Coton Hill House incidents

Received: 

Thursday, 19 October, 2023

Responded: 

Tuesday, 14 November, 2023

Request detail: 

Dates, Times and Reasons (from Incident Log) and any follow-up action taken relating to call outs for West Midlands Fire Service to attend incidents at Coton Hill House, Berwick Road, Shrewsbury, SY1 2PG during the period 1 March 2021 to 30 Jun 2023 inclusive. 
  
Details of individuals by name are not being sought or requested; however sufficient details relating to date, time, reason for attendance and any follow-up action is requested. 

Incidents on the River Severn at Atcham

Received: 

Friday, 8 September, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 2 October, 2023

Request detail: 

I would like to request all information which Shropshire Fire and Rescue
Service holds in relation to incidents or fatalities at the River Severn at
Atcham, Shropshire. Specifically this relates to an area of the river
frequented by members of the public at Easting 354040 Northing 309253 (What 3
Words location: convinces.muddle.organ, British National Grid reference:
SJ540092, Latitude: 52.679015 , Longitude: -2.6812316). Please include
information for an approximately 250 m radius around this point relating to
the river.

Lithium battery related fires

Received: 

Friday, 8 September, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 2 October, 2023

Request detail: 

As a freedom of information request, please provide data regarding the number of lithium battery related fires you have recorded. Specifically, please provide:
- Annual totals for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and so far in 2023
- Those annual totals split by the type of lithium device involved (such as e-bike, e-cigarette, e-scooter).
- Those annual totals split by the number of related injuries or fatalities
Please provide such data electronically, ideally as a spreadsheet.

e-scooters and e-bikes

Received: 

Wednesday, 6 September, 2023

Responded: 

Friday, 8 September, 2023

Request detail: 

Under the FOI Act 2000, please provide me with the number of fires involving e-scooters and e-bikes in each of 2021 and 2022. 

Please provide a breakdown for e-scooters and e-bikes please.

If also possible within the time constraints, can you provide the number of people injured/killed in such fires.

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