NFRS 2023 62 - Balcony fires

You asked for

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

• How many fires involving balconies occurred in total between 1st August 2022 and 31st July 2023? 
• 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? 
• 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

Answer: - No Information Held, a review of Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service systems located no incidents for the time period requested, relating to balcony fires on residential buildings.