Fire Statistics Monitor: April 2009 - March 2010

Published	20 August 2010
Type(s)	Statistics
Site	Fire and emergencies
Product code	10RSPA06370
ISBN	9781409824542
Price	Free

Summary

The latest National Statistics on fires, casualties, false alarms and non-fire incidents attended by the Fire and Rescue Services in England, produced by Communities and Local Government, were released on Friday 20 August 2010 under the auspices of the UK Statistics Authority.

Statistics in this release are the latest available figures for England for the period April 2009 to March 2010. Key points of the data are:

Fatal and non-fatal casualties

Between April 2009 and March 2010 there were 328 fatalities; five (one and a half per cent) more than in 2008-09. Accidental dwelling fires fatalities, which account for almost two thirds of all fire fatalities, were up by one from 209 in 2008-09 to 210 to 2009-10.
In 2009-10, the number of non-fatal casualties from fires fell by 8 per cent to 8,500 from 9,200 in 2008-09.

Fire Incident types

In England the Fire and Rescue Services attended 527,000 fire and false alarm incidents in 2009-10 - a 6 per cent decrease on 2008-09.
Total fires fell by 3 per cent to 242,000.
Dwelling fires were unchanged at 39,000 and fires in other buildings were down by 1 per cent to 22,000. Road vehicle fires fell by 12 per cent to 32,000.
Attendances at false alarms decreased by 9 per cent to 285,000. Within this there was a 27 per cent fall (to 17,000) in malicious false alarms and a 7 per cent fall (to 193,000) in false alarms due to apparatus.
Fire and Rescue Services attended 143,000 non-fire incidents in 2009-10, down 8 per cent from 2008-09. The largest categories were as follows: road traffic collisions (24 per cent), lift release (14 per cent), effecting entry (11 per cent) and water removal (11 per cent).

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