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Please see below the answer to your request.
Questions and final response:
Please could the below information be compiled separately for the three following time frames: Between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018. Between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2019. Between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2020.
How many times did fire stations under the authority of your fire service fail to meet their minimum safe fire engine availability threshold over the specified year? Please could you specify the stations which most frequently failed to meet this threshold and state the number of times they failed to meet it. How many full-time firefighters were employed by fire stations under the authority of your fire service over this period?
In relation to what I meant by "minimum safe fire engine availability threshold", I used the criteria as defined in the linked example from Surrey's IRMP 'Making Surrey Safer'. I appreciate that fire and rescue services do not hold uniform basic information on this, but It would be great if you could send the relevant information you do hold internally which is as similar as possible to what is in the table outlined on page 15 of this document.
In your response to the question about how many times did the fire stations under your authority fail to meet their minimum safe fire engine availability between April and December (1st to 31st) 2020, please could you also tell me the same information broken down by month over the same period in 2019 as well.
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service does not report or hold data on "minimum safe fire engine availability threshold".
We monitor stations through their availability to attend incidents. Attached is the last 24 months availability achieved for each of our stations and their target.
Please see the below table for the number of wholetime firefighters employed by ECFRS from 2018 to 2020.
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Wholetime HC - Actual |
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2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
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Jan |
617 |
629 |
633 |
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Feb |
616 |
632 |
650 |
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Mar |
612 |
630 |
645 |
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Apr |
613 |
621 |
652 |
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May |
607 |
624 |
651 |
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Jun |
618 |
626 |
650 |
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Jul |
624 |
625 |
643 |
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Aug |
620 |
624 |
641 |
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Sep |
613 |
616 |
643 |
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Oct |
624 |
639 |
645 |
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Nov |
625 |
638 |
642 |
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Dec |
622 |
637 |
639 |
Thank you for your interest in Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, we hope this satisfies your request.