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FOI4579 / May 2023 / Incident Data

Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold the information you have requested.

Questions and final response:

Question 1 – How many firefighters have died as a result of lithium-ion battery fires between April 2022 - April 2023?

No firefighters working for Essex County Fire & Rescue Service have died from a lithium-ion battery fire between April 2022 and April 2023.

Question 2 – How many times have your firefighters come into contact with a vapour cloud?

There is no recorded information to evidence any of our firefighters coming in to contact with a vapour cloud during the specified period.

Question 3– How many fires specifically in recycling centres or scrapyards they you encountered between April 2022 - April 2023 (excluding other waste fires)?

We have no recorded information of Essex County Fire & Rescue Service attending either of the specified type of site. The most recent that we attended of this type was in May 2021.

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Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. Incident Data (essex-fire.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.