Data required regarding balcony fires

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Dear Shropshire 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 2021 and 31st July 2022?

· 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,

Stephen Cole

Emily Bray, Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service

Dear Mr Cole

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. Please refer below:

· How many fires involving balconies occurred in total between 1st August
2021 and 31st July 2022? - Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service does not
routinely record this information. A search of our Incident Reporting
System using key words has revealed there were no incidents that involved
balcony fires for the specified date range.

· 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 see response above.

· 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. -
Please see response above.

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Kind regards
Emily Bray
Planning & Programmes Officer, Service Development
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service

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