NFRS 2023 23 - Pre-determined attendance
You asked for
- Would like to request the following information Pre-Determined Attendances for the Fire Service of Nottinghamshire- for example, P1 House Fire, 2 Pumps.
- Future Vehicles to Be Purchased by the Service and Details of these vehicles(make, model, year, etc).
- Calls Received per station for 2022 as a whole number, including standbys for example London Road - 2000 Worksop – 408.
- Retained Availability Statistics for Each Month of 2022 for all Retained Stations.
- Full Fleet List.
Our response
- Would like to request the following information Pre-Determined Attendances for the Fire Service of Nottinghamshire- for example, P1 House Fire, 2 Pumps
Answer: - Please refer to the attached PDF.Incident type 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Advice 2 Advice given by control 13 1 AFA Agricultural P3 4 AFA Care home P3 94 6 AFA Comercial high rise P3 1 5 10 AFA Hospital P3 337 95 2 AFA Hotel P3 10 2 1 AFA Industrial/Commercial P3 77 32 3 AFA Medium rise P3 12 AFA Other buildings P3 6 AFA Prison/Detention centre/Secure accommodation P3 11 2 AFA Residential high rise P3 3 20 450 48 6 44 4 AFA Residential P3 666 68 16 3 AFA Retail/Public assembly P3 39 35 7 AFA School/College P3 15 2 AFA Sheltered Accommodation P3 528 24 2 Aircraft light/Helicopter P2 1 1 1 Assist ambulance bariatric patient P1 28 9 Assist ambulance bariatric patient P2 1 Assist ambulance bariatric patient P3 1 Assist ambulance 789 1 Assist other agency 21 1 Assist other Fire and Rescue Service 1 Assist Police 89 1 Assist Police Fire and Rescue Equipment P3 18 Carbon monoxide alarm P3 5 CBRNE Confirmed P1 1 Chemical leak/Spill contained P2 1 Chemical leak/Spill uncontained P2 2 Controlled burning 2 Cylinder leak/Fracture in the open P3 2 Cylinder leak/Fracture inside building P2 1 Dangerous structure P3 27 Domestic smoke alarm low battery 3 Domestic smoke alarm P3 731 32 1 Fire agricultural P2 13 Fire basement P2 3 Fire boat P2 1 Fire caravan/camping P1 1 Fire caravan/camping P2 10 Fire care home P1 3 Fire care home P2 14 Fire chimney P2 45 Fire cylinders in the open P2 1 Fire derelict building P1 2 Fire derelict building P2 35 2 Fire domestic P1 108 2 Fire domestic P2 10 473 27 Fire electrical installation P2 12 Fire electrical substations/pylons/turbines/solar farm P2 10 Fire garage detached P2 18 1 Fire garage integral P1 1 Fire garage integral P2 8 Fire grass/field P3 57 Fire high rise P1 1 3 Fire high rise P2 3 1 2 16 Fire hospital P1 2 Fire hospital P2 1 4 18 24 1 Fire hotel P2 3 Fire in the open multi-lane P3 10 Fire in the open P3 2,752 6 Fire industrial/commercial P1 2 Fire industrial/commercial P2 1 109 7 Fire large flammable liquid P2 1 Fire large vehicle multi-lane P2 1 Fire large vehicle P2 1 31 2 Fire medium rise P2 1 1 2 Fire now out/late fire call P3 24 3 Fire other buildings P2 1 42 1 1 Fire prison/detention centre/secure accommodation P1 1 30 1 Fire prison/detention centre/secure accommodation P2 14 Fire railway embankment P2 2 9 Fire recycle banks/bins P2 7 Fire recycling/landfill/scrapyard P3 1 1 Fire residential P1 9 Fire residential P2 1 30 5 Fire retail/public assembly P1 1 Fire retail/public assembly P2 1 30 5 Fire road furniture/postbox/phonebox/bus shelter P3 9 Fire rubbish and refuse P3 320 1 Fire safety issue 1 Fire school/college P2 11 Fire shed P3 55 Fire sheltered accommodation P1 2 Fire sheltered accommodation P2 2 Fire standing corn/crop P2 1 4 Fire train P2 1 Fire travellers sites P2 1 Fire travellers sites P3 1 Fire tree P3 83 Fire trees/forest P2 2 Fire vehicle covered car park P2 1 Fire vehicle multi-lane P1 1 Fire vehicle multi-lane P2 4 35 1 Fire vehicle P1 2 Fire vehicle P2 351 4 1 Flooding external 1 Flooding internal P3 53 Fuel spill P3 24 Gas leaks domestic fridges/freezers 2 Gas leaks domestic pipes P1 2 Gas leaks domestic pipes P2 1 11 Gas leaks industrial/com fridge/freezer 1 Gas leaks mains pipes P1 1 Humanitarian assistance 265 1 ICE - Individual chemical exposure 3 3 Large flammable liquid leak/spill uncontained P2 1 Major release P1 3 Minor release P2 225 Notifications 1 Person locked in P0 16 Person locked in P1 45 Person locked out P0 5 Person locked out P1 5 Person on fire outside of building P1 3 Person shut in lift P1 25 Person shut in life P3 153 1 Rescue boat P1 1 Rescue from height P1 2 3 1 Rescue from machinery P1 2 Rescue large animal from water P3 5 1 Rescue large animal P3 11 1 Rescue mud/ice/quicksand/slurry P1 1 1 Rescue small animal from height P3 2 Rescue small animal from water P3 7 Rescue small animal P3 54 RTC large vehicle multi-lane P1 1 6 RTC large vehicle P1 3 8 3 RTC make safe multi-lane P3 4 23 1 RTC make safe P3 254 RTC multi vehicles' multi-lane P1 1 3 RTC multi vehicles P1 1 2 RTC vehicle into building P1 1 6 1 RTC vehicle into building P2 2 11 1 RTC vehicle multi-lane P1 25 3 RTC vehicle P1 2 211 7 Smell of burning P3 33 Smell of fumes P3 31 1 Smoke in the area P3 92 Suicide threat to jump into water P1 13 2 3 Suicide threat to jump P1 28 1 Suicide threat to set fire P1 9 Water rescue lakes/ponds P1 5 Water rescue swift P1 1 16 1 Water rescue vehicle flood water P1 1 White powder unconfirmed P2 1 - Future Vehicles to Be Purchased by the Service and Details of these vehicles(make, model, year, etc)
Answer: -- 17 x Fire Appliances Scania Chassis P360 with Angloco set to be delivered in 2024/25.
- 2 x Arial Ladder Platforms on the Scania Chassis P420 not yet ordered.
- 1 x DAF Chassis FALF290 18T for Command Support Vehiclereplacement.
- 2 x light vehicles (Not ordered, no Make & Model recorded)
- Calls Received per station for 2022 as a whole number, including standbys for example London Road - 2000 Worksop – 408
Answer:Calls per station in 2022 Station Alerts Stand-by Total Attendances Arnold 1,190 5 1,195 1,044 Ashfield 916 0 916 753 Bingham 221 0 221 179 Blidworth 279 3 282 235 Carlton 704 1 705 607 Collingham 165 1 166 130 East Leake 133 1 134> 98 Eastwood 342 10 352 274 Edwinstowe 688 18 706 540 Harworth 322 1 323 253 Highfields 1,188 0 1,188 1,004 Hucknall 390 8 398 335 London Road 2,906 8 2,914 2,606 Mansfield 1,220 0 1,220 1,071 Misterton 124 0 124 91 Newark 979 1 980 754 Retford 603 2 605 510 Southwell 84 1 85 66 Stapleford 334 4 338 261 Stockhill 2,803 9 2,812 2,442 Tuxford 171 2 173 142 Warsop 287 3 290 220 West Bridgford 1,076 2 1,078 913 Worksop 1,190 5 1,195 1,011 - Retained Availability Statistics for Each Month of 2022 for all Retained Stations
Answer: - On-call availability 2022(.xlsx) - Full Fleet List. Answer: -
BODY MAKE MODEL PEUGEOT No Information Recorded FORD Ford Transit SCANIA SCANIA P28 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P28 SERIES MAN No Information Recorded MAN No Information Recorded MAN No Information Recorded MERCEDES MERCEDES SPRINTER 4x4 MERCEDES MERCEDES SPRINTER 4x4 VOLVO VOLVO FL6 18 BRONTO SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P28 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P28 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P28 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P28 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P28 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA R230 SCANIA SCANIA R230 SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES IVECO IVECO Daily SCANIA SCANIA BRONTO SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES DAF DAF 14T SCANIA SCANIA P28 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES SCANIA SCANIA P31 SERIES RENAULT RENAULT KANGOO FORD FORD COURIER VAN PEUGEOT COMMUNITY OUTREACH FIAT FIAT DUCATO FIAT FIAT DUCATO VOLVO VOLVO V50 D3 2.0D SKODA SKODA OCTAVIA EST SKODA SKODA OCTAVIA EST FORD TRANSIT 350EL HIGH R FORD CONNECT LWB CREWVAN FORD FORD TRANSIT 350 LWB FORD CONNECT LWB CREWVAN FORD CONNECT LWB VAN FORD CONNECT LWB VAN RENAULT RENAULT ZOE RENAULT RENAULT ZOE RENAULT RENAULT KANGOOS RENAULT RENAULT KANGOOS FORD CONNECT LWB CREWVAN No Information Recorded FUEL BOWSER VAUXHALL VAUXHALL MOKKA VAUXHALL VAUXHALL MOKKA VAUXHALL VAUXHALL MOKKA VAUXHALL VAUXHALL MOKKA VAUXHALL VAUXHALL MOKKA VAUXHALL VAUXHALL MOKKA SKODA SKODA SUPERB FORD FORD FOCUS ESTATE FORD TRANSIT 350 MWB DCIV VOLVO VOLVO V50 D3 2.0D FORD CONNECT LWB CREWVAN RENAULT RENAULT ZOE FORD CONNECT LWB CREWVAN FORD FORD FOCUS ESTATE FORD FORD FOCUS ESTATE FORD FORD FOCUS ESTATE RENAULT RENAULT ZOE RENAULT RENAULT ZOE FORD CONNECT LWB CREWVAN FORD FORD FOCUS ESTATE FORD FORD FOCUS ESTATE MERCEDES MERCEDES-BENZ 4X4 MERCEDES MERCEDES-BENZ 4X4 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 MAN 7.5 TONNE SKODA SKODA OCTAVIA EST SKODA SKODA OCTAVIA EST MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI L200 RENAULT RENAULT KANGOOS FORD CONNECT LWB CREWVAN RENAULT RENAULT KANGOOS FORD FORD FOCUS ESTATE FORD FORD FOCUS ESTATE FORD FORD FOCUS ESTATE SKODA SKODA SUPERB MERCEDES MERCEDES 15 SEAT PCV FORD 15 SEAT PCV FORD FORD FOCUS ESTATE FORD TRANSIT 350 MWB Please be advised Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service has assessed that to disclose some of the requested information in this case the vehicle VRM and base station would be exempt by virtue of the following exemptions section 31(1) Law Enforcement and section 24(1) National Security of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
In addition, some vehicles have not been disclosed in their entirety as they have been deemed exempt by virtue of section 31(1) Law Enforcement, section 24(1) National Security and section 40(2) Personal Information of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This is due to the vehicles being assigned to singular individuals to perform their duty for the service.
Section 24: - National security.
- Information which does not fall within section 23(1) is exempt information if exemption from section 1(1)(b) is required for the purpose of safeguarding national security.
Section 24 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is categorised as a Qualified and Prejudice Based type exemption and therefore requires a public interest test to be carried and furthermore requires that Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service articulate the harm in disclosure.
Section 31:- Law Enforcement
- Information which is not exempt information by virtue of section 30 is exempt information if its disclosure under this Act would, or would be likely to, prejudice—
- the prevention or detection of crime,
- the apprehension or prosecution of offenders,
- the administration of justice,
- the assessment or collection of any tax or duty or of any imposition of a similar nature,
- the operation of the immigration controls,
- the maintenance of security and good order in prisons or in other institutions where persons are lawfully detained,
- the exercise by any public authority of its functions for any of the purposes specified in subsection (2),
- any civil proceedings which are brought by or on behalf of a public authority and arise out of an investigation conducted, for any of the purposes specified in subsection (2), by or on behalf of the authority by virtue of Her Majesty’s prerogative or by virtue of powers conferred by or under an enactment, or
- any inquiry held under the [Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Act 2016] to the extent that the inquiry arises out of an investigation conducted, for any of the purposes specified in subsection (2), by on behalf of the authority by virtue of Her Majesty’s prerogative or by virtue of powers conferred by or under an enactment.
Section 31 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is categorised as a Qualified and Prejudice Based type exemption and therefore requires a public interest test to be carried and furthermore requires that Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service articulate the harm in disclosure.
Section 40: - Personal Information
(2)Any information to which a request for information relates is also exempt information if—
- it constitutes personal data which does not fall within subsection (1), and
- the first, second or third condition below is satisfied.
(3A) The first condition is that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than under this Act—
- would contravene any of the data protection principles, or
- would do so if the exemptions in section 24(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018(manual unstructured data held by public authorities) were disregarded.
(3B) The second condition is that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than under this Act would contravene Article 21 of the GDPR (general processing: right to object to processing).
(4A) The third condition is that—
- on a request under Article 15(1) of the GDPR (general processing: right of access by the data subject) for access to personal data, the information would be withheldin reliance on provision made by or under section 15, 16 or 26 of, or Schedule 2,3 or 4 to, the Data Protection Act 2018, or
- (b) on a request under section 45(1)(b) of that Act (law enforcement processing:right of access by the data subject), the information would be withheld in relianceon subsection (4) of that section.
Section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is categorised as an Absolute and Class Based type exemption and therefore does not require a public interest test to be carried nor must Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service articulate the harm in disclosure. Section 24 Overall Harm As an emergency service Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Services must ensure that certain information relating to details of its equipment and material, which would be deemed essential in order to carry out our operational duties is appropriately protected from those who wish to cause harm or disruption both at a local and national level. Releasing information such as VRM and base location of such assets would create a major vulnerability to our aim to maintain the effective operation of our local and national emergency provision. The threat to the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) from terrorism is classified as substantial which indicates that an attack is likely. The Threat levels do not have an expiry date. They can change at any time as different information becomes available and is set by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and the Security Service (MI5). In order to save lives, minimise harm and lessen the overall consequences of a terrorist attack within the country, it is vital that measures are in place to ensure rapid and unimpeded response to such events occur and reduce potential hostiles from targeting our facilities. The Service believes that maintaining security and ensuring public safety in a national and local context takes precedence over releasing certain information and it is believed to disclose the requested information intensifies through potential risks.
Public Interest
Test Favour in disclosure: Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Services understands that there would be a public interest in knowing how public funds are spent on such vehicles, that those vehicles were well maintained, designed for the task they are to perform, adequate numbers of such vehicles are in stock and placed to respond to any type of incident. It further encourages openness and transparency between the service fostering public support and confidence.
Favour in non-disclosure: As an emergency service Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Services must ensure that certain information relating to details of its equipment and material, which would be deemed essential in order to carry out our operational duties is appropriately protected from those who wish to cause harm or disruption both at a local and national level. Releasing information such as VRM and base location of such assets would create a major vulnerability to its aim to maintain the effective operation of its local and national emergency provision. It is further argued that that disclosing the information would not add to the public’s understanding or awareness on the matter and would simply provide a detail repository of emergency equipment for those who may wish to cause harm both to the country and the public.
Section 31
Overall Harm
As an emergency service Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Services must ensure that certain information relating to details of its equipment and material, which would be deemed essential in order to carry out our operational duties is appropriately protected from those who wish to commit criminality or cause harm and disruption. The introduction of number plate recognition cameras (ANPR) which allows for the instantaneous checking of registration numbers against a national database. Police forces use ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) technology to help detect, deter and disrupt criminal activity at a local, force, regional and national level. This includes travelling criminals (those using the road network to avoid being caught), organised crime groups and terrorists. Releasing the VRM data for our fleet effectively provides a repository to ‘the world at large’ of all our licence plates tied to vehicle models and roles would, in our view, provide a ready database of licence plates tied to specific vehicle models that could be exploited by those attempting vehicle crime or fraud.
Public Interest
Test Favour in disclosure: Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Services understands that there would be a public interest in knowing how public funds are spent on such vehicles, that those vehicles were well maintained, designed for the task they are to perform, adequate numbers of such vehicles are in stock and placed to respond to any type of incident. It further encourages openness and transparency between the service fostering public support and confidence.
Favour in non-disclosure: As an emergency service Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Services must ensure that certain information relating to details of its equipment and material, which would be deemed essential in order to carry out our operational duties is appropriately protected from those who wish to commit criminality or cause harm and disruption. Releasing the VRM data for our fleet effectively provides a repository to ‘the world at large’ of all our licence plates tied to vehicle models and roles would, in our view, provide a ready database of licence plates tied to specific vehicle models that could be exploited by those attempting vehicle crime or fraud. This would create a major vulnerability to our aim to maintain the effective operations of our local and national emergency provision. Furthermore, the potential impact not only affect the service but law enforcement as well, the intent on criminal and those who would seek to harm or endanger public safety would adversely affect the Police Service creating additional burden in their duty to prevent crime.
Balance of the public interest for both s24 & 31
Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service considers that there is a public interest in knowing that the fire and rescue service have appropriate vehicles and that disclosing the registration marks and base locations alongside other vehicle details could ordinarily meet this interest. However, the public interest in disclosing that information is very slight as it would add very little in terms of accountability for public expenditure or decision-making. Whereby the public interest in safeguarding national security is very great indeed. Having found that the exemptions are engaged in this case, for the reasons stated above, that this public interest could only be balanced by the presence of equally strong public interest factors in favour of disclosure. There are none in this case. Therefore, the balance of the public interest weighs heavily in favour of maintaining the exemption.