Fires at Forestry Commission sites

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Dear Kent Fire and Rescue Service,

Could you please tell me how many calls to fires were attended each year, for the past five years, for the following Forestry Commission sites:

- Clowes Wood (Blean, Whitstable CT53EW)
- King’s Wood (White Hill, Challock TN25 4AR)
- Hemsted Forest (Benenden, Cranbrook TH17 4AN)
- Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest (Lady Oak Lane, Goudhurst TH17 2SJ)
- Jeskyns Community Woodland (Henhurst Road, Cobham DA12 3AN)

Can I also ask for the total number of hours spent at fires for each year of the past five years too please?

I am aware that sometimes incidents are reported vaguely such as "the woods off of London Road" without the full address. Please could you do your best to capture these incidents too when they are on Forestry Commission land. Could you also include any other Forestry Commission sites that you cover that I may have missed please.

Yours faithfully,

D. Schofield

Information Officer, Kent Fire and Rescue Service

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Dear D. Schofield,
 
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Dr Owain Thompson AKC FRGS AIFireE | Information Officer | Kent Fire &
Rescue Service
The Godlands, Straw Mill Hill, Tovil, Maidstone, ME15 6XB | T: 01622
692121 | E: [2][Kent Fire and Rescue Service request email]
 

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Dear team

In regards to my FOI request, I have been trying to find digital maps to assist with my request and capture Forestry Commission land that hasn't been listed, as well as show the boundaries of the land. I have been told by the Forestry Commission that "The information you seek is publicly available. There are a number of online sources that provide details of Forestry Commission sites, including: the Forestry Commission map browser and Land Information Search available at
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/use-the-land...
Or the Defra MAGIC map available at https://magic.defra.gov.uk/ "

I hope this will assist you further in fulfilling my request.

Yours sincerely,

D. Schofield

Information Officer, Kent Fire and Rescue Service

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Dear D. Schofield,

 

In response to your request made under the Freedom of Information Act
2000, the table below displays incidents at the requested locations since
01/01/2017. It is not possible to identify sites as specifically “Forestry
Commission” as we do not hold data on this.

 

 

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total
Count days Count days Count days Count days Count days Count days
of HH:MM:SS of HH:MM:SS of HH:MM:SS of HH:MM:SS of HH:MM:SS of HH:MM:SS
Fires Fires Fires Fires Fires Fires
CLOWES
WOOD,
RADFALL RD, 1 day & 3 days &
CHESTFIELD, 15 19:07:47 3 02:08:40 3 20:37:38 15 06:56:24 2 03:01:33 38 03:52:02
WHITSTABLE,
KENT (Inc.
Carpark)
JESKYNS
COUNTRY
PARK,
HENHURST - - - - - - - - 1 00:55:05 1 00:55:05
RD, COBHAM,
GRAVESEND,
KENT,
DA123AN
KINGS WOOD,
WHITE HILL,
CHALLOCK, 1 01:08:57 1 00:47:53 1 00:30:27 1 01:51:15 2 01:13:01 6 05:31:33
ASHFORD,
KENT
THE
NATIONAL
PINETUM AND
FOREST,
PARK LN, - - 1 05:32:37 1 04:16:49 - - - - 2 09:49:26
GOUDHURST,
CRANBROOK,
KENT,
TN172SL

 

 

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Kind regards

 

Owain

 

 

Dr Owain Thompson AKC FRGS AIFireE | Information Officer | Kent Fire &
Rescue Service

The Godlands, Straw Mill Hill, Tovil, Maidstone, ME15 6XB | T: 01622
692121 | E: [2][Kent Fire and Rescue Service request email]

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Dear team,

Thank you for your response to my enquiry, 'Fires at Forestry Commission sites'. Unfortunately, the way the email has turned out, its made the table rather confusing and hard to read. Would you be able to send it in an excel spreadsheet please?

Can I also double check if the total times you provided are incident time or appliance time? For example, if two appliances were called to the same incident, the times for both appliances spent on scene were combined to show overall time spent by resources.

If only total incident times were provided , would you be able to provide appliance time for each incident too please?
Yours sincerely,

D. Schofield

Information Officer, Kent Fire and Rescue Service

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Hello D. Schofield,

 

As requested, please find this information attached in an Excel sheet.

 

The information provided is as per your FOI request, see below and
attached.

 

“…total number of hours spent at fires for each year of the past five
years too please?”

 

This is based on a calculation of the duration of each incident, i.e.
arrival of first resource to closure of the incident by KFRS.

 

Kind regards

 

Owain

 

 

Dr Owain Thompson AKC FRGS AIFireE | Information Officer | Kent Fire &
Rescue Service

The Godlands, Straw Mill Hill, Tovil, Maidstone, ME15 6XB | T: 01622
692121 | E: [1][Kent Fire and Rescue Service request email]

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