- Author
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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Title
- Fire Statistics United Kingdom, 2003.
- Coporate
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, West Yorkshire, UK
- Report
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Reference Number 04FSRD02960
March 2005
116 p.
- Keywords
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fire statistics
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arson
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false alarms
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fire departments
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fire fighting
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death
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fire fatalities
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residential buildings
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automobile fires
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accidents
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rescue
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ignition source
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smoke detectors
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fire spread
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fire deptectors
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casualties
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chimneys
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room fires
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time
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automobiles
- Identifiers
- total number of fires and false alarms attended by the fire and rescue service; causes of fires; non-fatal casualties; country and fire and rescue service area; smoke alarm analyses; time of call to the fire and rescue service; Automatic Fire Detector (AFD) presence and operation; outdoor fires
- Abstract
- The statistics in this Bulletin are compiled from reports submitted to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) on fires and false alarms attended by the fire and rescue service (FRS) in the UK. Detailed information is collected on all fires in buildings, vehicles and outdoor structures and any fires involving casualties or rescues (i.e. 'primary' fires). The source of these data on primary fires is the fire report form FDR1(94) introduced in January 1994. Less detailed aggregated information is collected on 'secondary' and chimney fires (collected via fire report form FDR3) so subsequent analysis of them is limited. Fuller definitions of the types of fire reported on can be found in the Notes section at the end of this publication (paragraph 24). In addition to this publication, Fire Statistics Monitors are published four times a year. The Monitors concentrate on headline figures, whilst this annual publication contains more detailed analyses of fires and their causes. Industrial action in November 2002 and January and February 2003 has meant that fifteen days' data are missing from the returns made by the fire and rescue service (FRS). In some cases, this gap has been covered by estimates made by ODPM statisticians. However, for the more complex tables, the figures are as reported by the service and therefore exclude any estimates for strike days. All the tables are labelled accordingly.