NFRS 2024 85 - Christmas Day fires

You asked for

1. Fires Attended on Christmas Day
   • The number of incidents on Christmas Day (25th December) for each ofthe past five years (2018 to 2023).
   • For each relevant report, where possible, please include:
     • A brief description of the incident (redacted to remove personal identifying information)
     • Any outcomes or actions taken in response to the report
     • The type of location involved (e.g., private dwelling, commercial property, outdoor location, etc.)
     • Please also reference any incidents where keywords such as “turkey” or “Christmas dinner” are mentioned in the incident report.
2. Christmas Tree-Related Incidents
   • The number of incidents involving fires where a Christmas tree was explicitly mentioned or was a contributing factor for each of the past five years (2018 to 2023...and 2024 if possible)
   • For each relevant report, where possible, please include:
     • A brief description of the incident (redacted to remove personal identifying information)
     • Any outcomes or actions taken in response to the report
     • A breakdown of these incidents by date
     • The type of location involved (e.g., private dwelling, commercial property, outdoor location, etc.).

Our Response

Answer: - Please refer to the attached tables below, be advised that our incident reports do not contain any ‘outcome’ fields.

Section 40: - Personal Information

(2) Any information to which a request for information relates is also exempt information if—

1. it constitutes personal data which does not fall within subsection (1), and
2. 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—

1. would contravene any of the data protection principles, or
2. 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—

1. 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 withheld in 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
2. 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 reliance on 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 out nor must Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service articulate the harm in disclosure.