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NFRS 2022 84 - Air fryer fires

You asked for:

Number of callouts to fires where "air fryer" is named as the cause in each of the following calendar years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Please include any available details on the number/type of injuries, deaths and length of time to put each fire out.

I'd like this information to be sent electronically and in an Excel Spreadsheet format.

Our Response:

Answer: - Please refer to the tables below.

Please note the data was retrieved from 1st January 2017 to 29th of November 2022.

Incidents relating to 'Air Fryer' records in the incident reporting system. Please be advised there is no qualifier for 'Air Fryer' and a keyword search was performed of firefighter comments within the report.
Year Number of casualties Number of incidents Time of arrival to time of fire under control (mins)
2017 0 0
2018 0 0
2019 0 0
2020 0 0
2021 1 0 28
2022 2 0

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