FOI Request 2138

Subject: Mobilisation-level Incident Data

Status: Complete

Date received: April 2025

Question Asked:

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information for the period from 1 January 2009 to the most recent date available:

1. Mobilisation-level incident data from the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, I would like this data at the level of individual appliance mobilisation, not aggregated at the incident level. For example

- If two appliances are mobilised to the same incident, this should be represented as two separate rows, one for each appliance.

- Each row should represent a single appliance being mobilised to a single incident.

The data should include:

• Incident number

• Date and time of call

• Date and time of mobilisation/pump informed

• Date and time pump mobile

• Date and time of arrival

• Date and time of departure/leaving

• Date and time of pump return to station

• Pump attending station

• Pump callsign

• Type of incident

2. The total number of appliances across the service, for context when interpreting the mobilisation data.

• I am not requesting information on when appliances were unavailable or off the run.

• I am simply requesting the total number of appliances that could be recorded in the mobilisation dataset referenced above (e.g. front-line fire engines, rescue units, etc., as relevant to your service.

Our Response:

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service are part of Northwest Fire Control (NWFC) as are 3 other Fire Services. NWFC receive all 999 calls for all partners, and it is NWFC that are responsible for mobilising Fire Engines and resources to incidents.

ABOUT NORTH WEST FIRE CONTROL - NW Fire Control

Below is the link to the FOI Page as a request for CAD data would need to be directed to them. We do not hold CAD data.

Freedom of Information - NW Fire Control

Outcome: Referred to Website

FOI responded to within timescales: YES

Further action: NO