FOI Request 2048

Subject: Incidents due to Faulty / False Fire Alarms

Status: Complete

Date received: September 2024

Question Asked:

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you disclose the following information:

1. In the last 5 years (Between April 6 - April 5 2019 - 2024) - How many incidents did the fire service attend due to all false fire alarms (Broken down by years, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24)

1a. During this five year period, how many call outs to false fire alarms were because of a faulty alarm?

Our Response:

Below is the number of false alarms organised by year. For the second column, the list was filtered where the false alarm reason was recorded as ‘faulty’

Outcome: Information Provided

FOI responded to within timescales: YES

Further action: NO