Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

Recycling centres, scrapyards, landfills, other waste management facilities

Received: 

Wednesday, 14 December, 2022

Responded: 

Tuesday, 10 January, 2023

Request detail: 

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information. Please may you provide me with:

Statistics on the number of fires your fire service has attended at recycling centres, scrapyards, landfills, and any other waste management facilities since 1st January 2022. If possible, please also highlight any incidents where other regional fire services have been brought in to assist in putting out these fires - this is not completely necessary, but will help us to build a more accurate picture of this year’s waste fire incidents.

e-bikes and e-scooters

Received: 

Wednesday, 8 February, 2023

Responded: 

Monday, 13 February, 2023

Request detail: 

As part of our efforts to reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by electricity in the UK, we are putting together a report on e-scooter and e-bike safety. The information gathered will be used by our public affairs, media, and technical teams to drive campaigns and research for improvement in the safety associated with fire risk.

Animals in Distress

Received: 

Saturday, 3 December, 2022

Responded: 

Wednesday, 7 December, 2022

Request detail: 

Is it still the policy of the Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service to rescue Cats stuck up trees providing that the request to do so comes primarily from the RSPCA.

Air Fryers

Received: 

Tuesday, 29 November, 2022

Responded: 

Thursday, 29 December, 2022

Request detail: 

I'd like to make the following request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

 

> Number of callouts to fires where "air fryer" is named as the cause in each of the following calendar years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Please include any available details on the number/type of injuries, deaths and length of time to put each fire out.

E-bikes

Received: 

Wednesday, 16 November, 2022

Responded: 

Thursday, 8 December, 2022

Request detail: 

I would like to request data on the number of fires your service has tackled caused by ‘E-Bikes’ during the last 3 years, including 2022, if this data is available. 

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