Date of Request
May 23
Request
Dear Sir/Madam,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information.
In each of the past five years, going back to January 1 2018, and into 2023 up to and including the date of receipt of this FOI request, where that data is held, please provide the number of instances where the fire service has been called out to attend a fire caused by e-scooters and e-bikes.
Further, in your data, please differentiate between instances where the callouts to fires were caused by e-bikes, and to fires caused by e-scooters.
Please provide the information in the form of an email to X. This information may be re-used.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, which allows 24 hours work:
determining whether the information is held;
locating the information, or a document containing it;
retrieving the information, or a document containing it; and
extracting the information from a document containing it,
please let me know as soon as those limits are identified so I can refine my request.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below.
Yours faithfully
Response
Dear X,
Thank you for your request for incident information which has been received by Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service (the Service) and considered under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.
The Service can confirm the requested incident information is held.
Please find below the requested information for the following period of time 01/01/2018 to 30/04/2023:
|
Year |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
E-Bike |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
E-Scooter |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
|
Year |
Incident Type at Control |
Main Cause |
Source of ignition |
Item involved |
|
2020 |
Fire – Building |
Other |
Electricity supply – Apparatus – batteries, generators |
E – Scooter |
|
2020 |
Fire – Building |
Other intentional burning, going out of control |
Not known |
E – Scooter |
|
2021 |
Fire – Vehicle small |
Heat source and combustibles brought together deliberately |
Smoking related – Cigarette lighter |
E – Scooter |
|
2022 |
Fire – Building |
Fault in equipment or appliance |
Other domestic style appliance – Battery charger |
E Bike Charger |
|
2022 |
Fire – Building |
Faulty fuel supply – electricity |
Electricity supply – Apparatus – batteries, generators |
E – Bike |
The incident report is not intended to be a line by line account of the incident but a report collated for statistical purposes produced for the Home Office detailing our attendance and initial impressions by the officer in charge. Details of the Incident Commander’s initial impressions are selected from a limited range of options available, which may or may not cover the exact circumstances of each case. This information is included within the report but it should be noted that the information is not based on a detailed investigation and should not be relied upon as evidence.
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Kind regards,
Information Governance Team