FOIA Balcony fires data required

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Dear North 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 2022 and 31st July 2023?

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,

Mr. Hutcheon

FoI, North Wales Fire and Rescue Service

Dear Mr Hutcheon,

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (NWFRS) hereby acknowledges receipt of your request for information as detailed below, which is being actioned under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This is now receiving the Service’s attention and a response will normally be provided within 20 working days of the date of receipt.

To confirm, your request was received on 9th August 2023, and you have supplied an email address for response.

Yours faithfully,

Olivia Partington BA (Hons)

Cynorthw-ydd Gweinyddol Swyddogaeth Gweithrediadau / Operations Function Administrative Assistant
Swyddog Cefnogi Llywodraethu Gwybodaeth / Information Governance Support Officer
Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Gogledd Cymru / North Wales Fire and Rescue Service

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FoI, North Wales Fire and Rescue Service

Dear Sir,

 

Further to your recent request to North Wales Fire and Rescue Service
(NWFRS) made under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act regarding
balcony fires, the response from NWFRS is as follows:

 

How many fires involving balconies occurred in total between 1st August
2022 and 31st July 2023? One (had a start location as a balcony)

 

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? None

 

Please provide data on the causes of any fires that started on balconies
in the period (i.e.; barbecue, discarded cigarette, electrical appliance
fault, etc) and please provide the number of occurrences for each cause.
Smoking Related - Smoking Materials

 

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The Freedom of Information Officer

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters

Ffordd Salesbury

St Asaph Business Park

St Asaph

Denbighshire

LL17 0JJ

 

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Wilmslow

Cheshire

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Yours faithfully,

Swyddog Rhyddid Gwybodaeth/Freedom of Information Officer
Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Gogledd Cymru/North Wales Fire and Rescue Service

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