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Summary

The latest National Statistics on fires, casualties, false alarms and non-fire incidents attended by the Fire and Rescue Services in England, produced by the Department for Communities and Local Government, were released on Wednesday 4 July under the auspices of the UK Statistics Authority.

Statistics in this release are the latest available figures for England. They focus on the period of 1 April to 2011 to 31 March 2012. Key points of the latest data are:

Fatal and non-fatal casualties

• In 2011-12 there were 304 fire fatalities; 27 fewer than in 2010-11.
• Accidental dwelling fires fatalities, which account for three fifths of all fire fatalities, were down by 26 from 213 in 2010-11 to 187 in 2011-12.
• There were 4,277 non-fatal fire casualties (excluding first aid cases and where only a precautionary checks was recommended). This was 2 per cent lower than in 2010-11.

Incidents

• In England, Fire and Rescue Services attended 223,000 fires, 2 per cent lower than in 2010-11.
• Dwelling fires were 4 per cent lower at 35,000, and fires in other buildings were down by 2 per cent to 20,000. Road vehicle fires fell by 14 per cent to 24,000.
• Attendances at fire false alarms decreased by 9 per cent to 249,000. More than two thirds of these were due to apparatus, while 4 per cent were malicious false alarms.
• Fire and Rescue Services attended 133,000 non-fire incidents in 2011-12, down 9 per cent from 2010-11. The most common categories of non-fire incidents were: road traffic collisions (21 per cent), effecting entry (11 per cent), lift releases (11 per cent), flooding (9 per cent) and medical incidents (9 per cent).

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