Essex County Fire & Rescue Service

Transparency Overview

Select Category

Search Site

FOI / 3885 / 2018 - Exotic pets

Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold this information.

Please see below the answer to your request.

Initial Request:

1. How many times have the service been called out to rescue stuck pets in the last three years?

2. How many times have the service been called out to rescue other animals, excluding pets, in the last three years?

3. What are the strangest/most exotic pets the fire service has rescued in the past three years? (please give ten examples)

4. How many hours of fire service time has been spent rescuing pets in the last three years?

5. How many hours of fire service time has been spent rescuing other animals, excluding pets, in the last three years?

6. How many hours has been spent by the fire service battling fires for the last three year?Please provide answers in a yearly breakdown for the last three years (2015, 2016 and 2017). Here police officers includes PCSOs.

Final response:

1. How many times have the service been called out to rescue stuck pets in the last three years?

Please see attached Excel spreadsheet

2. How many times have the service been called out to rescue other animals, excluding pets, in the last three years?

Please see attached Excel spreadsheet

3. What are the strangest/most exotic pets the fire service has rescued in the past three years? (please give ten examples)

Animal rescues are classified under one of three headings

- Domestic e.g cat, dog, rodents, horse, bird, etc.

- Livestock e.g. horse, cow, sheep, goat, pig, poultry, fish, exotic (llama/ostrich), deer etc.

- Wild e.g. horse, deer, wildfowl, game, aquatic, exotic etc.

In the case of strangest/most exotic pets they would fall into Domestic. As a matter of course, crews do not indicate the subtype of animal rescued.

4. How many hours of fire service time has been spent rescuing pets in the last three years?

We do not report on the hours rescuing pets

5. How many hours of fire service time has been spent rescuing other animals, excluding pets, in the last three years?

We do not report on the hours spent rescuing other animals.

6. How many hours has been spent by the fire service battling fires for the last three year?

We report on how many incidents we attend, but we do not report on how many hours are spent battling fires

Thank you for your interest in Essex County Fire & Rescue Service.


Download Documents