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Fire Statistics Monitor Quarter 4: 1 January 2007 - 31 December 2007

Published 21 November 2008
Type(s) Statistics
Site Corporate
Product code 08RSPA05622
ISBN 9781409807919
Price Free

Summary

The latest National Statistics on fires, casualties and false alarms attended by the Fire & Rescue Services in the United Kingdom, produced by Communities and Local Government, were released on Friday 21 November 2008 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Statistics in this release cover a range of issues concerning Fire incidents in the United Kingdom including fires, casualties and false alarms attended by the Fire and Rescue Services in the United Kingdom from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007.

The key points are:

  • The United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Services attended 803,000 fire and false alarm incidents in 2007 - an 8 per cent decrease on the previous 12 months.
  • Total UK fires fell by 12 per cent to 384,000 and are at their lowest since 1988.
  • There were 466 fire deaths in this period - down 5 per cent on the previous 12 months and the lowest figure since 1958. Dwelling fire deaths fell by 11 per cent to 323. These fire death figures for the year 2007 are provisional.
  • Primary fires fell by 10 per cent to 144,000. Within this, dwelling fires are at their lowest since 1977 (53,000, down 6 per cent), fires in other buildings - including workplaces and areas where people gather - are down by 6 per cent to 31,000 and road vehicle fires again fell (by 14 per cent to 51,000) to their lowest total since 1989.
  • Secondary fires fell by 13 per cent to 231,000.
  • Attendances at false alarms decreased by 4 per cent to 419,000. Within this there was an 11 per cent fall (to 30,000) in malicious false alarms and a 4 per cent fall (to 271,000) in false alarms due to apparatus.

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