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.
Please see below the answer to your request.
Questions and final response:
Under Freedom of Information, I would be grateful if you could provide the following data split by each year for January to December 2019 and January to December 2020. Number of residential fires involving sheds/garages attended in the above years, broken down by each year. Number of residential fires involving home offices or other similar structures, if categorised differently to 'sheds/garages', broken down by each year.
Please see below for the shed and garage fire data.
Private garage fires
2019 44
2020 37
Grand Total 81
Garden shed fires
2019 41
2020 69
Grand Total 110
We do not have a category for home offices on our Incident Recording System (IRS).
Thank you for your interest in Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, we hope this satisfies your request.