Fires attended which involved electric or hybrid vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries - Find a freedom of information request

1. How may fires have your Service attended which involved electric or Hybrid vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries between the following dates 01/01/2021 - 01/11/2023?

2. Of these fires attended in how many of these was the cause recorded as a fault on the lithium-ion battery?

3. Of the fires attended how many involved the lithium battery cells?

4. Have your Service developed specific operational procedures for dealing with fires involving lithium-ion batteries?

5. Have your service purchased any specific equipment/extinguishing/PPE agents to deal with fires involving lithium-ion batteries?

6. Does your Service provide specific training to operational crews who may be called to fires involving lithium-ion batteries?

7. Where lithium-ion batteries are involved in RTA's persons trapped, do you adopt any specific measures to isolate the potential battery ignition risk?

8. Have your Service initiated any specific information gathering exercise on fires attended involving lithium ion batteries?

1. Data not held. The current reporting system (the national Incident Recording System) does not specify any category that allows for recording whether a vehicle was electric or hybrid.

2. Data not held.

3. Data not held.

4. Yes, Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue (LFR) has created an Operational information note which is shared with all operation’s crews on the mobile data terminal.

5. No.

6. LFR has an electronic training package which is delivered to operational staff within our scheduled training programme.

7. LFR provide information relating to disabling vehicles with a proximity key, and awareness of the battery systems and where they may be located on vehicles however, LFR do not isolate batteries on electric vehicles.

8. LFR has been involved in reviewing National learning and has discussed the issue at a regional level, other services within the region are reviewing. LFR do gather risk information on known BESS sites within the county, however this is challenging as there is no common register in which all BESS sites are filed.