Fire chiefs call on government to ensure services are properly resourced

摘要

Following this increase, the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has once again called on the government to ensure fire services are properly resourced - especially in areas such as prevention and protection - in a bid to see these figures reduce in the future. The latest Fire and Rescue Incident Statistics covers the period of April 2018 to March 2019. The increase in fires is largely due to the 19 per cent increase in secondary fires, many being linked to last year's unprecedented hot weather. Last year saw the greatest number of secondary fires since 2011. Primary fires decreased by one per cent over the same timeframe. Overall, fires accounted for: 32 per cent of incidents; fire false alarms - 40 per cent, and non-fire incidents - 28 per cent.