Our ref: EIR1648
3rd October 2023
Thank you for your request under the Environmental Information Regulations.
We can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold the information you have requested.
Please see below the answer to your request.
Questions and final response:
Question 1 - Under the FOI Act 2000, please provide me with the number of fires involving e-scooters and e-bikes in each of 2021 and 2022.
Please provide a breakdown for e-scooters and e-bikes please. If also possible within the time constraints, can you provide the number of people injured/killed in such fires.
Fires attended by Essex County Fire & Rescue Service involving e-scooters and e-bikes - 2021 and 2022.
Year Number of fires involving e-scooters Number of fires involving e-bikes
2021 1 0
2022 3 1
Total 4 1
Unfortunately, there is no data regarding victims recorded for these incidents.
To assist you, we have recently responded to a request for incident data for our attendance at incidents involving Lithium-Ion Batteries. I have included the response and data to this request here.
We hope this information is useful to you.
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Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. Incident Data (essexfire.gov.uk) .
Please note that the response and data released to you as part of this request will be published on our website http://transparency.essex-fire.gov.uk/.
All requests will be anonymised and no personal information including contact details will be disclosed as part of this process.
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Thank you for your interest in Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, we hope this satisfies your request.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to apply for an internal review.
Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of your original email and should be sent to informationgovernance@essex-fire.gov.uk or sent to our postal address: Internal Review, System & Data Information Governance Team, Kelvedon Park, Rivenhall, Witham, Essex CM8 3HB.
Please ensure you quote the above reference number in all future communications.