Residential Fires Involving Sheds/Garages - Find a freedom of information request

Request

Under Freedom of Information, I would be grateful if you could provide the following data split by each year for January to December 2019 and January to December 2020:

1. Number of residential fires involving sheds/garages attended in the above years, broken down by each year.

2. Number of residential fires involving home offices or other similar structures, if categorised differently to 'sheds/garages', broken down by each year.

Decision

1. Fires in Private garage in 2019: 11.

In 2020: 19.

Fires in Private garden shed in 2019: 29.

In 2020: 41.

 

2. In relation to fires involving 'home offices', there are no other property categories that would fit specifically. The recording system allows the capture of the type of room that the fire started in of which there is an option of 'office'. This returns no results of fires in dwelling related property types where the fire was recorded as starting in an office during the years of 2019 and 2020.

Reference number
1517689
Date request received
07 May 2021
Date of decision
20 May 2021