Fire and Rescue Services: Yorkshire and the Humber
(asked on 5th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents firefighters in the Yorkshire and Humber have attended in each year since 2010; and of those incidents how many were (a) fire incidents, (b) rescues and (c) other types of incidents.
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 South Yorkshire fire and rescue service in each year are shown in the table below:
Year | Total incidents | Fires | Rescues1 | Other emergency incidents2 |
2010/11 | 14,600 | 8,456 | 241 | 5,903 |
2011/12 | 15,070 | 9,280 | 212 | 5,578 |
2012/13 | 10,278 | 5,027 | 201 | 5,050 |
2013/14 | 12,071 | 6,430 | 184 | 5,457 |
2014/15 | 11,653 | 5,394 | 196 | 6,063 |
2015/16 | 13,004 | 5,804 | 209 | 6,991 |
2016/17 | 13,452 | 6,011 | 204 | 7,237 |
2017/18 | 14,167 | 6,648 | 198 | 7,321 |
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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
The number of total incidents, fires, rescue incidents and other emergency incidents attended by fire and rescue services in Yorkshire and Humber1 in each year are shown in the table below:
Year | Total incidents | Fires | Rescues2 | Other emergency incidents3 |
2010/11 | 66,634 | 28,984 | 1,379 | 36,271 |
2011/12 | 63,715 | 28,650 | 1,246 | 33,819 |
2012/13 | 49,431 | 17,870 | 1,121 | 30,440 |
2013/14 | 51,853 | 21,193 | 874 | 29,786 |
2014/15 | 49,214 | 18,730 | 946 | 29,538 |
2015/16 | 56,771 | 20,005 | 1,121 | 35,645 |
2016/17 | 57,539 | 21,105 | 944 | 35,490 |
2017/18 | 57,170 | 22,706 | 990 | 33,474 |
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1 Includes Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire 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
The Home Office does not hold incident data for Barnsley as incident data is collected at a fire and rescue service level. Incidents attended in Barnsley are therefore included within the South Yorkshire totals.