Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) fire incidents, (b) rescues and (c) total incidents firefighters in the North West have attended in each year since 2010.
The Home Office published the latest statistics on incidents attended by fire and rescue services in 2017/18 on 9 May 2019. The number of total incidents, fires, rescue incidents and other emergency incidents attended by fire and rescue services in the North West1 in each year are shown in the table below:
Year | Total incidents | Fires | Rescues2 | Other emergency incidents3 |
2010/11 | 94,815 | 43,326 | 2,077 | 49,412 |
2011/12 | 83,832 | 38,004 | 1,985 | 43,843 |
2012/13 | 71,890 | 28,781 | 1,864 | 41,245 |
2013/14 | 71,595 | 32,010 | 1,611 | 37,974 |
2014/15 | 66,279 | 27,593 | 1,724 | 36,962 |
2015/16 | 74,339 | 29,077 | 1,711 | 43,551 |
2016/17 | 78,058 | 28,604 | 1,742 | 47,712 |
2017/18 | 77,021 | 29,389 | 1,724 | 45,908 |
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1 Includes Cumbria, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside fire and rescue services
2 Includes rescue or evacuation from water, lift release, other rescue / release of persons
3 Includes all other non-fire incidents and fire false alarms