Lithium Ion Battery Fires
Dear Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service,
1) Please provide the number of fires caused by lithium ion battery’s in Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch each separately per month from 2019-present
Yours faithfully,
Tom Reighard
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Lisa Breakspear
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Good Afternoon Tom,
Thank you for your request for information in relation to Lithium ion
battery’s in Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch.
We received your request on 06^th December 2024, and we are dealing with
it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will supply
you with our findings as soon as possible, on or before 08^th January
2025.
If you have any queries regarding this request, please contact me
directly, quoting the reference number above.
Kind Regards
Debbie Lowe BSc (Hons) with QTS
Information Governance Officer
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service
Tel: 01722 691315
dwfire.org.uk
@DWFireRescue
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Good Afternoon Tom,
Further to your request of 06^th December 2024, which we have treated as a
Freedom of Information request, please find below our response to the
information you requested.
Query:
1) Please provide the number of fires caused by lithium ion batteries in
Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch each separately per month from
2019-present
Response:
Please see the table below for the information you requested.
Bournemouth,
Christchurch
& Poole, January February March April May June July August September October November December
lithium ion
battery
fires
2019
2020
2021 1
2022
2023 1 1 1 2
2024 4 1 1
I trust that this answers your queries, however, if you are unhappy with
the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make
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Information Governance Team, Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service,
Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre, Hulse Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire
SP1 3NR within 40 working days of receipt of the original
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Yours sincerely,
Debbie Lowe BSc (Hons) with QTS
Information Governance Officer
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service
Tel: 01722 691315
dwfire.org.uk
@DWFireRescue
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