Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

Outdoor fires

Received: 

Thursday, 15 September, 2022

Responded: 

Monday, 10 October, 2022

Request detail: 

Please provide as much information as possible about each fire, including but not limited to:

a) Month

b) Date

c) Location (as specific as possible)

d) Outdoor location type (e.g. Loose refuse; Grassland, woodland and crops; Outdoor structures)

e) Primary fire (yes or no)

f) Accidental or deliberate

g) Outdoor damage area description

e-scooter and e-bike fires

Received: 

Saturday, 27 August, 2022

Responded: 

Tuesday, 27 September, 2022

Request detail: 

Do you have data on the number of calls involving e-scooters and e-bikes please? Also, would it be possible to get figures for 2021, 2021 and the most recent so that I can compare with previous years?

 

Ludlow area

Received: 

Thursday, 18 August, 2022

Responded: 

Friday, 9 September, 2022

Request detail: 

How long does it take from someone phoning for the firemen to arrive on scene in Ludlow?

Where does the dispatch come from?

On average how many phone calls a week do you get that are not necessary ( so they could have found someone else to deal with the situation)?

Gas related incidents

Received: 

Tuesday, 16 August, 2022

Responded: 

Friday, 9 September, 2022

Request detail: 

Please can you provide me with the following information for the annual years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 (up until the date this email is received). 

Please provide the figures by year. e.g for the first bullet point, 2018: 50 properties, 2019: 41 properties, 2018: 13 properties etc. 

Severn Valley Railway

Received: 

Thursday, 4 August, 2022

Responded: 

Friday, 26 August, 2022

Request detail: 

Can you please advise whether Severn Valley Railway is charged for Fire Brigade call outs to embankment fires caused by steam engines, it seems that it is a regular occurrence.

Perhaps you could also quantify the number of times you do respond to the SVR.

Balcony Fires

Received: 

Tuesday, 9 August, 2022

Responded: 

Thursday, 25 August, 2022

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 2021 and 31st July 2022?

· 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?

Solar panels / log burners

Received: 

Friday, 1 July, 2022

Responded: 

Tuesday, 26 July, 2022

Request detail: 

I would be grateful if you could provide the following data under Freedom of Information:

•Number of fires you have attended relating to solar / photovoltaic panels in 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date.  I’d be grateful if you could break this down by year.

•Number of fires you have attended relating to log burners / open log fires in 2021 and 2022 to date, broken down by month.  

Electric vehicle / lithium battery fires

Received: 

Thursday, 16 June, 2022

Responded: 

Tuesday, 12 July, 2022

Request detail: 

I would like to submit a Freedom of Information request please. I would be most grateful if you could provide the following information:

A) How many electric vehicle / lithium battery fires have been tackled since 2017? (Five years + 2022)

Please present the findings by year:

2022 (so far - Jan-June)

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

B) Please show the types of vehicles in the data. (EG, cars, bikes, scooters etc)

River rescues

Received: 

Tuesday, 14 June, 2022

Responded: 

Tuesday, 12 July, 2022

Request detail: 

We are carrying out the river safety review and to help build a better picture of the issues I wonder if you are able to provide us with information about all incidents where a rescue has been carried out? We’re looking at the last 10 years.

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