Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

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.

Fire dogs

Received: 

Monday, 17 April, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 17 April, 2023

Request detail: 

 am writing to make a request for all the information to which I am entitled
under the The Freedom of Information Act 2002. Please may you provide me with
the following:

1. How many dogs were part of the fire service for each of the last ten
calendar years (2012-2022), broken down by job type. (eg. Fire investigation
search dog)

2. Please list the main breeds used in the totals in question 1. Please list
the most commonly used breeds first.

E-bike and scooter battery fires

Received: 

Thursday, 30 March, 2023

Responded: 

Wednesday, 26 April, 2023

Request detail: 

Please could you tell me for each of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023:
- How many fires suspected of being caused by faulty e-bike or scooter batteries have there been which have been responded to by your fire service
- How many of these caused injuries?
- How many of these cause death?

Fires caused by vapes

Received: 

Monday, 20 March, 2023

Responded: 

Thursday, 13 April, 2023

Request detail: 

Under Freedom of Information, I would be very grateful if you could provide figures relating to fires caused by disposable e-cigarettes and vapes. I appreciate this may not be a category you record. It would be great if you could perform a free text search on "vape" and "e-cigarette" together with any other terms you think relevant. Please could you provide the information, split by the years 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Bariatric rescues

Received: 

Sunday, 12 March, 2023

Responded: 

Wednesday, 12 April, 2023

Request detail: 

I am writing to request some information under the Freedom of Information Act in relation to the rescue of a “bariatric person”

I understand that in April 2012 a new category relating to obese people was created for your incident reporting systems.

Could you please tell me how many call outs you received to move Bariatric or obese people from their homes or to rescue them during the following calendar years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013?

Emergency Response Motorcyclist (Motorcycle Fireperson)

Received: 

Tuesday, 21 February, 2023

Responded: 

Friday, 3 March, 2023

Request detail: 

We would like to request information on:

•Any/all risk assessment which have been created to support emergency response motorcyclist roles (as per HSE requirements)

•Documentation covering the required CE standards for motorcyclist riding clothing (garments, policy, procurement, etc).

Callsigns

Received: 

Friday, 3 March, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 6 March, 2023

Request detail: 

Please could you provide me with your "national" fire code.

For example, for your colleagues in South Wales its WS. I.e: WS99P1

Fires at waste centres / refuse vehicles

Received: 

Friday, 10 March, 2023

Responded: 

Tuesday, 28 March, 2023

Request detail: 

Under Freedom of Information, I would be grateful if you could assist with the following enquiry. We are interested in the number of fires in refuse vehicles and at waste and recycling centres. I appreciate you may not have a specific code for this, and if not, it would be great if you could use a free text search for any terms you might think would capture this (e.g. waste centre, recycling centre, rubbish truck, refuse vehicle). It would be great to have the data split by waste facilities and refuse vehicles, and broken down by the years 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Woodland, countryside, farmland fires

Received: 

Wednesday, 1 March, 2023

Responded: 

Friday, 24 March, 2023

Request detail: 

Is it possible to obtain information on how many fires there were in 2022 on farmland/woodland/countryside in Shropshire in 2022?

If possible I'd like to know the cause, are/size of the fire at its peak and how long it took to extinguish and the resources/assets needed to extinguish each individual fire and the cost.

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