Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

Received: 

Wednesday, 23 March, 2022

Responded: 

Thursday, 16 June, 2022

Request detail: 

I am requesting freedom of information from your fire service to request whether. 

Your fire service has ever used Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) for firefighting purposes?  

•           What firefighting foam/s system/s did your fire service use?   

•           If available what type of PFAS were these foams?   

•           What dilution was used in firefighting foams by your fire service?  

•           From what years would your fire service use these firefighting foams? 

Operational information

Received: 

Saturday, 7 May, 2022

Responded: 

Thursday, 9 June, 2022

Request detail: 

1. What are the operational objectives of Shropshire fire service?

2. What are the crewing standards of Shropshire fire service

3. What operational vehicles and equipment do Shropshire fire and rescue have?

4. What training is provided with Shropshire fire and rescue?

5. What special operational skills do Shropshire fire and rescue firefighters require?

Thankyou again if you could help this would be much appreciated.
 

Fires at Natural England Sites

Received: 

Tuesday, 3 May, 2022

Responded: 

Friday, 27 May, 2022

Request detail: 

Could you please tell me how many calls to outdoor fires were attended each year, for the past five years (between 01/04/2017 and 01/04/2022), for all land owned or managed by Natural England in your area. I would be interested in fires of any size, both primary and secondary, deliberate and accidental. Please also include false alarms.

I have found the following sites in your area

- WYRE FOREST National Nature Reserve

- STIPERSTONES NNR

- BUSH WOOD & HIGH WOOD

- SHROPSHIRE MOSSES NNR

Outdoor Fires

Received: 

Friday, 29 April, 2022

Responded: 

Wednesday, 25 May, 2022

Request detail: 

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

I would like you to provide me with the number of callouts the service has attended relating to grass, woodland, forest or crop fires during the financial years 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 respectively. 

For each of these incidents in each of these years, I would also like you to provide me with the total number of hours spent at these fires (incident time)

Water Rescue Incidents

Received: 

Monday, 25 April, 2022

Responded: 

Thursday, 19 May, 2022

Request detail: 

 I am collating data regarding non-fatal water rescue incident data across the West Mercia region.
Whilst I can access some general information publically published by SFRS, my analysis work requires more detailed information relating to gender, age and ethnicity.

SRT Boat and Water

Received: 

Wednesday, 13 April, 2022

Responded: 

Monday, 16 May, 2022

Request detail: 

I am after the following info please,

For the following years 2019,2020,2021 and up in till today 2022

How many times has there been non availability of a srt boat crew to cover emergencies within Shropshire?

How many,type water callouts have you attended for the same period?

Deliberate Fire and Anti Social Behaviour

Received: 

Sunday, 3 April, 2022

Responded: 

Friday, 29 April, 2022

Request detail: 

Please provide for the Shropshire Fire and Rescue service:

1. How many deliberate fires have been recorded for the years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022?

2. How many fires have been flagged as a result of anti-social behaviour for the years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022?

3.How many fires have been flagged as a result of anti-social behaviour for the years for the last four years broken down by quarter?

i.e:

2018/19 Apr, May, Jun

2018/19 Jul, Aug, Sep

2018/19 Oct, Nov, Dec

2018/19 Jan, Feb, Mar

2019/20 Apr, May, Jun

Foams

Received: 

Wednesday, 2 March, 2022

Responded: 

Tuesday, 29 March, 2022

Request detail: 

We are currently looking at a site as part of a desk study and available information for the site we have identified that the building immediately abutting our site was part of a substantial fire back in 2007.

We were wondering if you held any records on the damage caused in the incident and the details of any fire fighting techniques used etc. I have included below a snapshot out the report including the date of the incident and the environment incident.

The site address is Unit C, Halesfield 10, Telford, TF7 4QP

 

Fleet and Incidents 2022/22

Received: 

Wednesday, 2 March, 2022

Responded: 

Tuesday, 29 March, 2022

Request detail: 

 I am writing to make a Freedom of Information request regarding your service.

I would like to receive a copy of the following information relating to the year 2020-2022:

Number and type of vehicles in the fire service fleet

Average response time to call out

Average response time to incidents at care/children’s homes

Average response time to incidents outside your area to support another Fire Service

Number of care/children’s homes registered in your service area

Number, Type and Location of Incidents of any sort

Electric Car

Received: 

Wednesday, 2 March, 2022

Responded: 

Tuesday, 8 March, 2022

Request detail: 

 I would like to ask you a few questions:

-              What intervention tactics do you employ in an electric car fire?

-              Do you have different procedures for fighting a fire in electric cars in

different environments? ( for example : indoors outdoor, above ground,

underground…)

-              If you answered “yes” on previous questions then what are these

procedures? Please could you send some of your documentation of this procedures/tactics?

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