Incident and emergency response

Requests relating to operational incidents including statistics on attendance times.

Call Outs and Hoax call 2020/21

Received: 

Tuesday, 1 March, 2022

Responded: 

Thursday, 24 March, 2022

Request detail: 

I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am attempting to find which areas suffer the most from hoax callers to the fire service in the UK.

My questions in relation to your fire service are as follows:

1.) How many call outs has the fire service attended for the years 2020 and 2021?

2.) What were the reasons for the callouts for the years 2020 and 2021?

3.) How many call outs were hoaxes?

4.) How many fines were issued for these hoax calls?

Fire at Forestry Commission sites

Received: 

Saturday, 19 February, 2022

Responded: 

Friday, 18 March, 2022

Request detail: 

Could you please tell me how many calls to fires were attended each year, for the past five years, for the following Forestry Commission sites:

- Haughmond Hill (Newport Road, Shrewsbury SY4 4PW)

- Eastridge Woods (Habberley SY5 0TP)

- Kinsley Wood (Knighton LD7 1DT)

- Hopton Wood (Craven Arms SY7 0QF)

- Mortimer Forest

Can I also ask for the total number of hours spent at fires for each year of the past five years too please?

Hoarding

Received: 

Thursday, 17 February, 2022

Responded: 

Thursday, 17 March, 2022

Request detail: 

  1. What percentage of requests for fire safety checks in private dwellings are hoarding related?
  2. How many properties are registered as being a fire or safety risk due to hoarding?
  3. Last year (or the most recent full year), how many incidents and fatalities were recorded where hoarding was a contributing factor?

Heritage Building Fires

Received: 

Tuesday, 8 February, 2022

Responded: 

Monday, 7 March, 2022

Request detail: 

Last year I sent you a request to your FRS to confirm the number of incidents that have occurred within your authority to the heritage-built environment for 2020.  I would respectively request similar data for 2021. We are still losing heritage buildings at an alarming rate with the loss to the nation currently unknown as there are currently no statistics produced detailing the number of fires of where, when or how they are occurring.

Emergency Calls by Students

Received: 

Monday, 7 February, 2022

Responded: 

Tuesday, 1 March, 2022

Request detail: 

I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for information relating to the number of times emergency fire and rescue services have been called by students after the beginning of the pandemic. We are requesting information from every fire service in the UK. 

  1. Emergency calls made by students: 

A.     The number of times fire/rescue services in your region were called  by a university student since the beginning of September 2020. 

E-Scooter Fires

Received: 

Tuesday, 11 January, 2022

Responded: 

Thursday, 3 February, 2022

Request detail: 

Good morning

Under the freedom of information act, please can you tell me how many incidents you attended in the calendar years 2020 and 2021 where the cause of the fire was an electronic scooter (e-scooter).

Harper Adams University

Received: 

Thursday, 6 January, 2022

Responded: 

Monday, 31 January, 2022

Request detail: 

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In order to assist you with this request, I am outlining my query as specifically as possible.

I would like to request the following information:

How many times have you attended Harper Adams University? What was the nature of these calls?

What has been the most common reason for you to be called to this address?

Are there incident reports I can access regarding Harper Adams?

I would like to receive the information for the last 7 years, in spreadsheet form where applicable

Incidents attended in 2021

Received: 

Wednesday, 5 January, 2022

Responded: 

Tuesday, 1 February, 2022

Request detail: 

Please could you supply me detailes of incidents that the fire service have attended in 2021 with the following information

Date and Time of Call

Appliances Attended ( With the name of the station it came from and the Callsigns ) Specialist Vehicles that was In Attendance Eg. (HVP, EPU etc.) End Time (stood down) Personnel on The Appliances Type of Incident Location (street/ Town ) Premises Type Outcome (Primary / Secondary) What Equipment was Used at the incidents

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