Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

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.

Station calls

Received: 

Monday, 10 April, 2023

Responded: 

Wednesday, 10 May, 2023

Request detail: 

i would like to recieve information about how many calls each station recieved in the time of january 1st to december 31st of 2022 (not appliance, just every call that particular station recieved, including standby moves), in the format of

station - call

for example
Wellington - 400
Tweedale - 300
Etc

Appliance availability

Received: 

Tuesday, 9 May, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 5 June, 2023

Request detail: 

I write to make the following request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I would like the service to provide me with details of the Retained/On-Callfire appliances availability over the most recent 12-month period,stipulating the amount of time these appliances were ‘off the run’(unavailable) to respond to an emergency.
I would like these details to be broken down into the number of hours per month that an appliance has been unavailable on a station-by-station basis and expressed as a percentage figure.

Electric heater fires

Received: 

Friday, 5 May, 2023

Responded: 

Wednesday, 31 May, 2023

Request detail: 

How many fires in your area were caused by electric heaters in each of the months listed (see attached spreadsheet)?

How many deaths were caused by fires caused by electric heaters in each of the months listed?

What was the age of the deceased in each case?

Recycling centres or scrapyards

Received: 

Wednesday, 19 April, 2023

Responded: 

Tuesday, 16 May, 2023

Request detail: 

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

 

How many firefighters have died as a result of lithium-ion battery fires between April 2022 - April 2023?
How many times have your firefighters come into contact with a vapour cloud?
How many fires specifically in recycling centres or scrapyards they you encountered between April 2022 - April 2023 (excluding other waste fires)?
Please provide the information in the form of a word document or pdf. 

Vehicle fires

Received: 

Tuesday, 11 April, 2023

Responded: 

Tuesday, 9 May, 2023

Request detail: 

I would like to request under the Freedom of Information Act data held by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service on vehicle fires attended by your emergency crews for the financial years 2017-18 to 2022-23 inclusive.

The information I am seeking relates directly to vehicles which have caught fire either while parked or while in use. An example would be a car which catches fire while parked outside a house or a car which catches fire while driving along the road.

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