Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does not hold the information you have requested.
Please see below the answer to your request.
Questions and final response:
I'd like to please request statistics for:
- The number of fires in the construction industry in 2018/19
- The number of fires caused by hot works in the construction industry in 2018/19
- The main causes of hot works incidents in the construction industry
- The number of injuries and fatalities caused by hot work incidents in the construction industry.
Construction or hot works are not a searchable fields on our Incident Recording System (IRS).
We carried out a free text search in the IRS narrative log using ‘hot works’ and ‘construction’. There were no results matching these criteria.