Fire and Rescue Services: North West

(asked on 28th June 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 3rd July 2019

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

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

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