Call out numbers...

Hi Leanne

 

Many thanks for your query. We’ll get this back to you soon.

 

Best regards

 

James Finch| Head of Policy & Performance | Kent Fire & Rescue Service |
Tel: 01622 698 453

 

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Dear Leanne

 

Here are the stats and info you asked about:

 

Between 1 January and 1 November 2011 there have been 10 incidents in the
St Margaret’s area. The fire engine from St Margaret’s attended 8 of
those, which were:

o        5 false alarms

o        1 shrub on fire by a roadside

o        Assisting with a forced entry to a property (not involving fire)

o        Attendance at the rock fall last New Year’s Day (St Margaret’s
engine were there in support of another team from Deal and the Urban
Search and Rescue Team), no rescue as no people involved

 

The other 2 were false alarms and were attended by other local stations as
shown below:

 

·         05/10/2011

o    False Alarm, both Dover’s fire engines sent, the full-time one was
mobilised at 10:08:28, booked attendance 10:14:20 so took approx 6
minutes.

·         11/10/2011

o    False Alarm, Dover’s part-time fire engine was sent, mobilised at
16:11:07 booked attendance 16:24:30 so took approx 13 ½ mins [as a
part-time fire engine, there is around five minutes taken for the crew to
arrive at the station to collect the fire engine]

 

St Margaret’s has been sent on standby 37 times between 1 January 2011 and
1 November 2011. Standby is where an incident has happened somewhere and
the fire engine is sent to a station in case another one happens. They
have been to the following stations the number of times shown below:

 

Folkestone 13

Dover 10

Deal 5

New Romney 4

Ramsgate 3

Hythe 2

 

There have also been 4 ‘cluster cover’ moves, 3 to Folkestone and 1 to New
Romney. Cluster cover moves are where we proactively cover a station to
maintain emergency cover, in the event of a fire engine being unavailable,
eg due to training.

 

I hope this answers your questions, but please do come back to me if you
require anything else

 

Best regards

 

James Finch| Head of Policy & Performance | Kent Fire & Rescue Service |
Tel: 01622 698 453

 

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Hi Leanne

Just to be clear, what you are asking for is the number of times the fire engine based at St Margaret's been used at an incident, other than on St Margaret's ground [which you have the info for below]? If this is what you are after, I can provide this to you very quickly tomorrow. If it's something else, let me know

Thanks

James Finch| Head of Policy & Performance | Kent Fire & Rescue Service | Tel: 01622 698 453

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From: leanne moore [[FOI #92752 email]]
Sent: 16 November 2011 20:40
To: Finch James
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Call out numbers...

Dear Finch James,

Thankyou for that info, may i also have the numbers for the amount
of times the fire engine has actually left the st margarets
firestation not including training between 1st jan and 1st nov
2011?

many thanks

Yours sincerely,

leanne moore

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Ok no problem, I'll get this to you soon. [It's James by the way - our email system puts first names second...]

James Finch| Head of Policy & Performance | Kent Fire & Rescue Service | Tel: 01622 698 453

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Hi Leanne

 

Info as requested below. Including the eight times this year that St
Margaret’s has been mobilised on its own ground, [which is part of an
earlier response to you], they have been mobilised 51 further times on
other grounds, as shown in the table below.

 

  Fire Special Service False Alarm Total
Dover 9 4 15 28
Folkestone     1 1
New Romney 1     1
Hythe   1   1
Lydd 2     2
Hoo 1     1
Thanet 1     1
Ramsgate 1     1
Deal 3 3 7 13
Sandwich 1   1 2
Total 19 8 24 51

 

If you have any further queries, drop me a line

 

Best regards

 

James Finch| Head of Policy & Performance | Kent Fire & Rescue Service |
Tel: 01622 698 453

 

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