Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

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: 

Electric vehicle battery fires

Received: 

Monday, 10 July, 2023

Responded: 

Friday, 28 July, 2023

Request detail: 

I would like to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, data held by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service on the below:
1. Number of EV battery fires that have been tackled from June 2019 - June 2023

2. Please include a break down of types of vehicle in the data (car, bus/coach, e-bike/e-scooter, etc)

3. Please include details on month, year, cause of fire, fire spread and injuries/fatalities as a result of the fire

Phone chargers

Received: 

Tuesday, 4 July, 2023

Responded: 

Tuesday, 25 July, 2023

Request detail: 

I was wondering under the Freedom Of Information Act if you could tell me how many house fires or incidents have been caused by knock off phone chargers.

Animal rescues (2018-to date)

Received: 

Friday, 28 July, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 19 June, 2023

Request detail: 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 please can I request information about:
How many animals/pets the Shropshire fire service has rescued in the last five years.
Please can you include a breakdown of the figures for each year of the last five years, starting from Jan 2018 to date.

Can you detail (where possible):

What the animal was
What date the animal was stuck
Where it was stuck
How long it was stuck for
How long it took for you to save the animal
How many crew members were involved?

E-scooters/E-bikes lithium battery fires

Received: 

Friday, 23 June, 2023

Responded: 

Friday, 7 July, 2023

Request detail: 

How many lithium battery fires involving e-bikes and e-scooters have been attended in your fire service area in the last five years for which data is available? If possible, please provide data broken down by year. I don’t mind if the data is broken down by calendar year, financial year, or other 12-month reporting period. Spreadsheet format preferred.

Electric vehicle fires

Received: 

Monday, 19 June, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 10 July, 2023

Request detail: 

Request for information under the FOIA

Please could you tell me how many electric vehicle fires your fire and rescue service has dealt with in each of the past three financial years.

If you do not distinguish between electric vehicles and internal combustion engine vehicles then please let me know at your earliest convenience as I have the overall figures already for the time period concerned.

If I can assist in an any way in meeting this request, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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