NFRS 2022 44 - Fire on balconies

You asked for:

Please supply me with data relating to fires on balconies on residential buildings in your area, as follows;

1. How many fires involving balconies occurred in total between 1st August 2021 and 31st July 2022?
2. In the same period, how many fires occurred where balconies where found to have contributed to the spread of the fire across the external walls?
3. Please provide data on the causes of any fires that started on balconies in the period (ie; barbecue, discarded cigarette, electrical appliance fault, etc) and please provide the number of occurrences for each cause.

If your incident recording system does not include "balcony" as a recorded location, could you please perform a search on free text fields in your database for the term, as I have found in the past that this often returns useable data.

Our Response:

1. How many fires involving balconies occurred in total between 1st August 2021 and 31st July 2022?

   Answer: - 3

2. In the same period, how many fires occurred where balconies where found to have contributed to the spread of the fire across the external walls?

   Answer: - No Information Held, there were zero records recorded for the above.

3. Please provide data on the causes of any fires that started on balconies in the period (ie; barbecue, discarded cigarette, electrical appliance fault, etc) and please provide the number of occurrences for each cause.

   Answer: - causes for the fires in question 1

   • Small rubbish fires, cause unknown x2
   • Fire due to smoking materials in ash tray x1