- Author
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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Title
- Fire Statistics United Kingdom, 2001.
- Coporate
- Home Office, London, England
- Report
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Product Code 03FHSD01009
April 29, 2003
106 p.
- Distribution
- For more information contact: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, P.O. Box 236, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7NB, Telephone: 0870 1226 236, Fax: 0870 1226 237, Email: [email protected] FOR MORE INFORMATION: Copy of this report can also be downloaded from the Fire Statistics and Research web site: http://www.safety.odpm.gov.uk/fire/rds/index.htm
- Keywords
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fire statistics
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fire departments
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casualties
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fire fatalities
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residential buildings
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death
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false alarms
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automobile fires
- Identifiers
- non-fatal casualties; fires in other buildings; fires in road vehicles; country and brigade area; time of call to brigade; outdoor fires
- Abstract
- The statistics in this Bulletin are compiled from reports submitted to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) on fires attended by local authority fire brigades. 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 (see below) 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 23). This publication is the second of two Statistical Bulletins reporting on fires attended in 2001. The first publication (Fire Statistics Estimates, United Kingdom, 2001) was released on 17th December 2002 and contained a limited analysis in the form of estimates for 2001 fires data. We have now undertaken a more thorough quality validation exercise, resulting in the data for 2000 and 2001 being revised from previous publications. Data for fires and casualties attended in 2000 are now finalised and 2001 data are provisional. This publication contains much more detailed analyses of fires and subsequent casualties attended in 2001 than was previously published in December 2002.