NFRS 2022 81 - E-bike fires

You asked for:

I would like to request data on the number of fires your service has tackled caused by ‘E-Bikes’ during the last 3 years, including 2022, if this data is available. Many thanks for your time.

Our Response:

Answer: - No Information Held, the fire incident management system does not record or use specific qualifiers for ‘E-Bikes’. To determine if an ‘E-Bike’ was the cause of a fire would require the those recording to within the comments section of the incident. Upon a free text search, no record within the time period specified returned an incident containing the word ‘E-Bike’.