Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

Fires involving buildings under construction

Received: 

Tuesday, 19 October, 2021

Responded: 

Friday, 12 November, 2021

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:

How many fires have you attended in the past year within buildings that have been under construction / within the construction industry?

How many of these fires were caused by 'hot work'? (welding, cutting, soldering and any work that involves an open flame).

What kind of hot work was involved?

Were there any injuries, casualties or fatalities involved?

What kinds of buildings were involved?

Balcony Fires

Received: 

Sunday, 12 September, 2021

Responded: 

Wednesday, 6 October, 2021

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 between 1st August 2020 and 31st July 2021? 

· In the same period, how many building fires occurred where balconies where found to have contributed to the external spread of the fire? 

· Please provide data on the causes of any fires that started on balconies (ie; barbecue, discarded cigarette, electrical appliance fault, etc) and please provide the number of occurrences for each cause. 

 

Fatal Drownings

Received: 

Wednesday, 8 September, 2021

Responded: 

Monday, 4 October, 2021

Request detail: 

This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. My request relates to fatal drownings in your area.

I would like to request the following information:

How many fatal drownings were recorded in your area in June, July and August this year Please provide the information electronically and broken down by month.

On Call Appliance Availability

Received: 

Friday, 13 August, 2021

Responded: 

Monday, 20 September, 2021

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-Call fire 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.

ACM Cladding

Received: 

Thursday, 5 August, 2021

Responded: 

Thursday, 2 September, 2021

Request detail: 

I am llooking to find out how many fires there have been in buildings with ACM cladding since the fire at Grenfell in June 2017.

Please could you provide figures for:

1) The number of fires your crews have attended at buildings with ACM cladding (listed on the Government website) since 14 June 2017.

2) The number of fatalaties caused by fires at buildings with ACM cladding since 14 June 2017.

Types of Calls to each Station

Received: 

Thursday, 22 July, 2021

Responded: 

Monday, 16 August, 2021

Request detail: 

Dear Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service, I am writing to you to ask how many different types of calls each of your stations responded to in the year 2020, E.g. Shrewsbury- 100 accidental house fires, 90 RTC’s, 20 AFA’s.

Ridership for each appliance

Received: 

Wednesday, 7 July, 2021

Responded: 

Thursday, 8 July, 2021

Request detail: 

I require some information under freedom of information act.

What is the ridership equation for each type of appliance at the fire service.

Also please provide min / standard / max crewing levels for each vehicle type

ThIs should be laid out as per below;

First pump ridership -1.43 x5 =7 - min 4 - standard -5 max 6 

Second pump ridership-1.43 x4=6- min 4 - standard 5 - max 6

Aerial ladder -1.43 x2= 3 - min 2 - standard 2 - max 3

And so on

Stations and crewing

Received: 

Wednesday, 7 July, 2021

Responded: 

Monday, 12 July, 2021

Request detail: 

Under freedom of information please advise 

- which stations are retained and which are whole time and which are both.

- what the crew levels are for each station and what the different ranks are. If the station is crewed both whole time and retained give numbers separately. 

An example would be 

Telford - wholetime and retained-

Wholetime: 1 stat man / 4 watch man / 8crew man / 16 firefighters 

Retained : 1 wm / 2 cm / 10ff

 

Incident Statistics

Received: 

Saturday, 19 June, 2021

Responded: 

Wednesday, 14 July, 2021

Request detail: 

I would like to request 2 FOIs.

1st is a spreadsheet outlining the incidents before Covid-19 (Year 2019) and the incidents whilst the Covid-19 Pandemic hit (Year 2020).

I would like to request a list of incidents with corresponding numbers, as follows.

AFA - XXX

SSC - XXX

SSC URGENT - XXX

PROPERTY FIRE - XXX

PROPERTY FIRE  PERSONS REPORTED - XXX

FIRE IN OPEN - XXX

CAR FIRE - XXX

RTC MAKING SAFE - XXX

RTC PERSONS TRAPPED - XXX

MISSING PERSONS/WATER RESCUE - XXX

OTHER - XXX

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