Date of Request
September 23
Request
Dear Sir/Madam,
Under the FOI Act 2000, please provide me with the number of fires involving e-scooters and e-bikes in each of 2021 and 2022.
Please provide a breakdown for e-scooters and e-bikes please.
If also possible within the time constraints, can you provide the number of people injured/killed in such fires.
Eg:
2021; X fires involving e-scooters, X fires involving e-bikes + X killed, X injured in fires involving e-scooters, X killed, X injured in fires involving e-bikes.
2022; X fires involving e-scooters, X fires involving e-bikes + X killed, X injured in fires involving e-scooters, X killed, X injured in fires involving e-bikes.
Thank you,
Response
Dear Alex
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 partially. Please find the answers to the questions below:
The Service does not record “E-bike” or “E-scooter” on our incident reports. As a result this analysis has been done on the Narrative log which is a transcription of the conversation which takes place between the Incident Commander and Fire Control during an incident.
The following was used as search criteria: e-scooter, e scooter, escooter, electronic scooter, electric scooter, scooter, e-bike, e bike, ebike, electronic bike and electric bike.
The incidents were analysed to check if they were relevant and the following tables have been produced:
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E scooter fires by year |
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Year |
2019 |
2020 * |
2021 ** |
2022 *** |
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Count |
0 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
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* This fire was classified as Unknown |
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** Two of these fires were classified as Deliberate, One was classified as Accidental |
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*** This fire was classified as Accidental |
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No casualties or fatalities in any of the above incidents |
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E bike fires by year # |
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Year |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
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Count |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
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# All 3 Electric bike fires were accidental |
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No casualties or fatalities in any of the above incidents |
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Mobility scooter fires by year |
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Year |
2019 |
2020 ^ |
2021 |
2022 ^^ |
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Count |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
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^ One of these fires was classified as Accidental, the other was classified as Unknown |
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^^ This fire was classified as Deliberate |
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No casualties or fatalities in any of the above incidents |
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