Fire incidents

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Dear Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service,

Please could you supply details of incidents which attract 8 and
8+appliances with the following information for the last 5 years:

Date, time, appliances and callsigns, specialist appliances (and
what this is), officers and callsigns, Incident end time, type of
incident, location, type of premises i.e. hospital, outcome i.e.
fire or secondary fire.

For each incident please could you supply the stop message.

If cost prohibits any of the full information please remove any
section that would allow the request to be made.

Yours faithfully,

R Gray

Louise Goodhead, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service

Dear R Gray

Thank you for your query with regard to incidents that attract 8 and
8+appliances over the last 5 years at Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
(SFRS).

Your request asks SFRS to supply details of these incidents including
appliances, specialist appliances and Officers.  Could I clarify with you
whether specialist appliances and officers should be included within the 8
or more appliances?

Could I also clarify whether the criteria of 8 or more appliances applies
to the duration of the incident or at any one time during the incident? 
Some incidents are protracted and relief crews will be called, this can
take the total number of appliances attending to 8 or more over the
duration of the incident but not necessarily at the same time.

Yours sincerely

Louise Goodhead

Planning and Programmes Officer

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service

 

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Dear Louise Goodhead,

Your request asks SFRS to supply details of these incidents including
appliances, specialist appliances and Officers. Could I clarify with you
whether specialist appliances and officers should be included within the 8
or more appliances?

8 + pumping appliances or pump ladders , TL, HP's would be fine

Could I also clarify whether the criteria of 8 or more appliances applies
to the duration of the incident or at any one time during the incident?
Some incidents are protracted and relief crews will be called, this can
take the total number of appliances attending to 8 or more over the
duration of the incident but not necessarily at the same time.

You don't need to include relief crews if they are taking over from an appliance, so if 6 appliances require 6 reliefs this doesn't need to be included

Yours sincerely,

R Gray

Louise Goodhead, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service

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Dear R Gray

Thank you for your enquiry with regard to incidents that attract 8 and
8+appliances.  Please find attached a spreadsheet that shows:

 

·         Date and time,

·         Total number of appliances,

·         Call sign,

·         appliance type, (including officers and call signs),

·         Stop time,

·         Incident type,

·         Outcome,

·         Location descriptions,

·         Premise type.

 

The spreadsheet shows incidents from 25 March 2012 to December 2014. 
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) changed its Command and Control
System in September 2011; from this date to 25 March 2012, SFRS
experienced difficulties with the system, and records from this period are
not easily retrievable.  It is estimated that there were approximately 80
incidents from this period that may have attracted 8 appliances or more. 
To confirm this, each incident would need to be retrieved from the system,
reviewed to ensure that the incident did not include relief crews, matched
to an address and other incident information.  It is estimated that this
would take approximately 10 minutes per incident, plus approximately half
an hour to set up the query.

This equates to more than 14 hours, and when added to the amount of time
already spent collating the information within the spreadsheet (8 hours
currently), the cost of compliance with your request would exceed the
appropriate costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of information Act
2000. This is currently £450.

Information regarding incidents prior to September 2011 are contained
within the previous Command and Control system, and would be equally
difficult to interrogate to enable us to retrieve incidents of 8
appliances or more.  Officers estimate that it would take well in excess
of 8 hours to interrogate the data from December 2009 to September 2011,
adding further to the cost of compliance.

If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been
handled, you can request an internal review by writing to Assistant Chief
Fire Officer Louise McKenzie, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service, St
Michael’s Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2HJ.

 

If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint,
you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

The Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Telephone: 08456 30 60 60 or 01625 54 57 45

Website: [1]www.ico.gov.uk

 

Yours sincerely

Louise Goodhead

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service

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Dear Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service's handling of my FOI request 'Fire incidents'.

Please supply the stop message freetext as requested per incident

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...

Yours faithfully,

R Gray

Louise Goodhead, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service

I am away from the office until Monday, 5 January 2015 and will deal with
any queries on my return. If your email relates to a request for
information made under either the Freedom of Information Act, DPA or
Environmental Information Regulations, please contact Managment Support on
01743 260205. thanks Louise

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Sue Comben, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service

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Dear R Gray

 

Please find attached response to your request.

 

 

 

Sue Comben

Temporary Executive Support Officer

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service

St Michael’s Street

Shrewsbury SY1 2HJ

Tel: 01743260205 Internal 1205

Email: [1][email address]

 

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