Balcony Fires Data Required

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Dear Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service,

Please supply me with data relating to fires on balconies on residential buildings in your area, as follows;

· How many fires involving balconies occurred in total between 1st August 2023 and 31st July 2024?
· In the same period, how many fires occurred where balconies where found to have contributed to the spread of the fire across the external walls?
· Please provide data on the causes of any fires that started on balconies in the period (ie; barbecue, discarded cigarette, electrical appliance fault, etc) and please provide the number of occurrences for each cause.

If your incident recording system does not include "balcony" as a recorded location, could you please perform a search on free text fields in your database for the term, as I have found in the past that this often returns useable data.

Yours faithfully,

Halle White

Angharad Hawkes, Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

Dear Halle,

Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

The Authority acknowledges receipt of your request dated 20/08/24 which has been accepted as a formal request under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act).

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(ii) The Authority has 20 working days, from the day after the date of receipt, to comply with a request for information – under Section 10 of the Act. Your request was received by this Authority on 20/08/24. The statutory limit ends on 18/09/24.

The Authority hopes to be in a position to respond within the statutory timescale.

Yours sincerely

Angharad

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