Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

Listed buildings

Received: 

Sunday, 6 August, 2023

Responded: 

Tuesday, 5 September, 2023

Request detail: 

Can I please request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act.

1) The number of fires that the service responded to in listed buildings (to include Grade I, Grade II*, Grade II) between January 2018 and August 2023 (or the latest available date).

2) The names and addresses of the buildings referred to in Q1.

3) If possible, information on whether each fire referred to in Q1 was considered deliberate.

Balcony fires

Received: 

Thursday, 10 August, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 4 September, 2023

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 2022 and 31st July 2023?

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.

Bariatric rescues

Received: 

Tuesday, 8 August, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 4 September, 2023

Request detail: 

Please can you provide the following information.
How many times were you called out for bariatric assists / bariatric incident in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 (broken down by year, and, if possible, by month)

Wildfires

Received: 

Friday, 28 July, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 21 August, 2023

Request detail: 

How many wildfires did your fire brigade deal with from 2017 to 2022? Please break down your response by year, size of fire, date, cause and if possible, location.

Please let me know any new equipment your service has purchased or plans to purchase in the last 5 years to combat wildfires.

Solar / photovoltaic panels

Received: 

Friday, 7 July, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 14 August, 2023

Request detail: 

I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Could you please supply me with the number of fires that have been attended relating to solar / photovoltaic panels from 2010 to date. I’d be grateful if you could break this down by year.

If you don’t have a specific recording category for these, a free text search would be much appreciated.

Stairlifts

Received: 

Thursday, 27 July, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 21 August, 2023

Request detail: 

I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

How many call outs to homes made by the Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service were related to injuries or problems with stairlifts in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, and (d) 2022?

Domestic fires

Received: 

Monday, 24 July, 2023

Responded: 

Thursday, 17 August, 2023

Request detail: 

Could I please request data on the following: 

The total number of domestic fires attended in the most recent one-year period you have available.
The cause or category of each fire, if possible.

Electric vehicle battery fires

Received: 

Monday, 24 July, 2023

Responded: 

Friday, 28 July, 2023

Request detail: 

I write to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information from you regarding the statistics surrounding the number of fires caused by electric vehicle batteries, broken down by the specific type of vehicle & city/town this occurred in throughout the past fiscal year (2022/23) in the specific region this fire service is responsible for.

The specific information I am requesting is: 

Fires in the construction industry

Received: 

Wednesday, 19 July, 2023

Responded: 

Friday, 28 July, 2023

Request detail: 

I write to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information from you regarding the statistics surrounding the number of fires in the construction industry and the number of fires, injuries and fatalities caused by hot works in the areas this fire service is responsible for.

The specific information we are requesting is: 

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