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• Fire Statistics Monitor Quarter 2: 1 July 2007 - 30 June 2008

Fire and emergencies

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Summary

The latest National Statistics on fires, casualties and false alarms attended by the Fire and Rescue Services in the United Kingdom, produced by Communities and Local Government, were released on Friday 8 May 2009 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Statistics in this release cover a range of issues concerning fire incidents in the United Kingdom including fires, casualties and false alarms attended by the Fire and Rescue Services in the United Kingdom from 1 July 2007 to 31 June 2008.

The key points are:

• The United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Services attended 773,000 fire and false alarm incidents in the year ending June 2008 - an 11 per cent decrease on the previous 12 months.
• Total UK fires fell by 15 per cent to 362,000 and are at their lowest since 1988.
• All UK fire deaths (including accidental and deliberate) increase by 5 per cent to 476, contrary to the long term downward trend. Within this there were 352 fire deaths in England, up 1 per cent from 349.
• Primary fires fell by 11 per cent to 137,000. Within this, dwelling fires are at their lowest since 1977 (51,000, down 6 per cent), fires in other buildings - including workplaces and areas where people gather - are down by 10 per cent to 29,000 and road vehicle fires again fell (by 15 per cent to 47,000) to their lowest total since 1989.
• Secondary fires fell by 19 per cent to 215,000.
• Attendances at false alarms decreased by 7 per cent to 410,000. Within this there was a 16 per cent fall (to 28,000) in malicious false alarms and a 6 per cent fall (to 267,000) in false alarms due to apparatus.

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• Fire Statistics Monitor Quarter 2: 1 July 2007 - 30 June 2008
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• Fire Statistics Monitor: Q2 2008 - Tables 1 and 2
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• Fire Statistics Monitor: Q2 2008 - Tables 3a to g
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• Fire Statistics Monitor: Q2 2008 - Tables 4a to c
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• Fire Statistics Monitor: Q2 2008 - Tables 5a to d
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Related publications

• Fire Statistics Monitor Quarter 1: 1 April 2007 - 31 March 2008 (correction)

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