Emergencies
(asked on 24th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) fire incidents, (b) rescue incidents (c) flood incidents and (d) any other emergency incidents have been recorded by his Department in each of the last three years.
The Home Office published the latest statistics on incidents attended by fire and rescue services in England in 2017/18 on 9 August 2018. The number of fires, rescue incidents, flood incidents and other emergency incidents attended by FRSs in each year are shown in the table below:
| 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Fires | 162,247 | 161,997 | 167,150 |
Rescue incidents1 | 15,619 | 15,994 | 16,369 |
Flooding incidents | 13,710 | 14,111 | 15,611 |
Other emergency incidents2 | 337,852 | 368,351 | 365,697 |
All incidents attended | 529,428 | 560,453 | 564,827 |
1 Includes rescue or evacuation from water, lift release, other rescue / release of persons
2 Includes all other non-fire incidents and fire false alarms