Demand - 5-year Sample (January 2019 to December 2023)

Data Cleansing: Incidents and Responses Taken Forward

Chart showing the stages data went through before analysis by ORH

Data Cleansing - Exclusion Summary

Data Received
Total Mobilisation Records 75,132
Non-Pump Records 5,286
Total Pump Records 69,846
Pump Records
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total
Initial Pump Records 13,037 12,478 13,491 15,624 15,216 69,846
Repeat Attendance 62 171 164 287 143 827
Vehichle wasn't assigned 8 8 12 14 10 52
Vehichle didn't arrive at scene - - - 37 305 342
Control Time outside acceptable cut-offs 79 113 139 198 119 648
Turnout Time outside acceptable cut-offs 3 4 2 5 8 22
Time To Scene outside acceptable cut-offs 6 15 13 10 12 56
Crew Response outside acceptable cut-offs 1 2 3 1 2 9
Time At Scene outside acceptable cut-offs 21 30 42 54 38 185
Outside FRS Boundary 2 2 2 2 4 12
Total Excluded Records 182 345 377 608 641 2,153
Responses used in analysis 12,855 12,133 13,114 15,016 14,575 67,693

Data Cleansing - Exclusion Criteria

Records were excluded using the following criteria

Exclusion Criteria

Time From Time To Minimum accepted Maximum accepted
Reliefs Attendance / Delay in Assigning Time of Call Time Assigned 0 Mins 0 Seconds 60 Mins 0 Seconds
Mobilisation Time/Turnout Time Time Assigned Time Mobile 0 Mins 0 Seconds 20 Mins 0 Seconds
Time to Scene Time Mobile Time Arrived at Scene 0 Mins 0 Seconds 60 Mins 0 Seconds
Crew Response Time Assigned Time Arrived at Scene 0 Mins 0 Seconds 60 Mins 0 Seconds

Map of Stations by Duty System

24 Stations

Home Station Wholetime On-Call Day Shift Crewing
Arnold FET26P1
Ashfield FET05P1* FET05P2 FET05P1d,n*
Bingham FET17P1
Blidworth FET02P1
Carlton FET27P1
Collingham FET15P1
East Leake FET28P1
Eastwood FET24P1
Edwinstowe FET06P1
Harworth FET10P1
Highfields FET29P1
Hucknall FET25P1
London Road FET29P1, P2
Mansfield FET01P1
Misterton FET11P1
Newark FET16P1 FET16P2
Retford FET12P2 FET12P1d,n
Southwell FET14P1
Stapleford FET23P1
Stockhill FET20P1, P2
Tuxford FET13P1
Warsop FET07P1
West Bridgford FET19P1
Worksop FET08P1 FET08P2

*Ashfield converted to Wholetime as of 29 November 2023

Type Count
Wholetime 12
On-Call 16
Day Shift Crewing 2
Total 30

Post 29 Nov 2023

Type Count
Wholetime 13
On-Call 16
Day Shift Crewing 1
Total 30

Demand by Month

Average Daily Incidents - All Incidents

Average Daily Incidents - Fire Incidents

Average Daily Incidents - Special Service Incidents

All Special Service Incidents - Breakdown by Type

Special Service Type 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total
Effecting entry/exit 631 536 604 664 673 3,108
RTC 529 480 518 578 554 2,659
Assist other agencies 219 233 242 246 276 1,216
Other assistance to police/ambulance 166 161 178 177 203 885
Lift Release 162 114 171 171 173 791
Removal of objects from people 100 90 127 116 131 564
Flooding 120 64 65 60 86 395
Suicide/attempts 70 73 68 88 93 392
No action (not false alarm) 75 66 62 48 56 307
Removal of people from objects 41 35 66 73 60 275
Medical Incident - First responder 55 35 42 73 46 251
Other rescue/release of persons 60 50 33 36 35 214
Trapped Animal 36 31 44 50 35 196
Make Safe (not RTC) 21 38 18 36 29 142
Spills and Leaks (not RTC) 24 27 33 30 16 130
Person in water or at immediate risk of entering water 36 17 26 21 29 129
Rescue from height 14 11 20 8 17 70
Other Transport incident 14 8 14 11 20 67
Rescue from water/mud etc 16 10 10 15 5 56
Other 63 39 47 53 66 268
Total 2,452 2,118 2,388 2,554 2,603 12,115

Average Daily Incidents - False Alarm Incidents

Life Risk Definition

ORH have worked with NFRS to define life risk incidents, which includes:

  • Primary Fires and Secondary Fires where the Property Category is either Dwelling, Building: Non-Residential, Building: Residential.
  • Special Service RTCs where person trapped (NFRS have provided a list of incident numbers to ORH).
  • Special service incident types listed in the following section

Life Risk Definition - Special Services

  • Assist other agencies - Class 1: Explosives
  • Class 2: Gases
  • Class 3: Flammable Liquids
  • Class 5: Oxidizing Materials
  • Class 6: Toxic Materials
  • Class 8: Corrosive Materials
  • Class 9: Miscellaneous Dangerous Goods
  • Combination of substances - Effecting entry/exit
  • Medical Incident
  • First responder - Other rescue/release of persons
  • Person in water or at immediate risk of entering water
  • Rescue from water/mud etc
  • Suicide/attempts
  • Rescue from height 
  • Other Transport incident
  • Other assistance to police/ambulance
  • Medical Incident - Co-responder
  • Evacuation (no fire)
  • Person not in water or at imminent risk of entering water (NB water not flowing)
  • Rescue from below ground

Life Risk Incidents by Incident Type

Number of Incidents Percentage of Incident Type
Incicent Type Life Risk No Life Risk Life Risk No Life Risk
Primary Fire 4,345 3,075 58.6% 41.4%
Secondary Fire - 8,367 - 100%
Chimney Fire - 193 - 100%
Special Service - Other 6,548 2,912 69.2% 30.8%
Special Service - RTC 452 2,203 17.0% 83%
False Alarm - AFA Hospital - 2,172 - 100%
False Alarm - AFA Prison - 80 100%
False Alarm - AFA No Hospital & Prison - 12,643 - 100%
False Alarm - Good Intent - 5,185 - 100%
Flase Alarm - Malicious - 641 - 100%
Total 11,345 37,471 23.2% 76.8%

Priority P1 to P3 incidents by Incident Type

The Priority type P1, P2 and P3 were taken from the MobiliseIncidentType field in the original Incidents dataset received. They include different categories of Incident types.

Number of Incidents by Priority Type

Incident Type P1 P2 P3 Other
Primary Fire 605 4,739 2,066 9
Secondary Fire 20 320 8,021 7
Chimney Fire 3 185 5 -
Special Service - Other 1,070 1,179 1,733 5,478
Special Service - RTC 1,318 136 1,168 33
False Alarm - AFA Hospital 2 70 2,100 -
False Alarm - AFA Prison 3 9 68 -
False Alarm - AFA No Hospital & Prison 50 389 12,172 32
False Alarm - Good Intent 156 1,366 3,537 126
False Alarm - Malicious 30 91 512 8
Total 3,257 8,484 31,382 5,693

Priority Type percentage of Incident Type

Incident Type P1 P2 P3 Other
Primary Fire 8.2% 63.9% 27.8% 0.1%
Secondary Fire 0.2% 3.8% 95.9% 0.1%
Chimney Fire 1.6% 95.9% 2.6% 0.0%
Special Service - Other 11.3% 12.5% 18.3% 57.9%
Special Service - RTC 49.6% 5.1% 44.0% 1.2%
False Alarm - AFA Hospital 0.1% 3.2% 96.7% -
False Alarm - AFA Prison 3.8% 11.3% 85.0% -
False Alarm - AFA No Hospital & Prison 0.4% 3.1% 96.3% 0.3%
False Alarm - Good Intent 3.0% 26.3% 68.2% 2.4%
False Alarm - Malicious 4.7% 14.2% 79.9% 1.2%
Total 6.7% 17.4% 64.3% 11.7%

Station Districts

Map of Nottinghamshire showing the break down of districts in relation to fire stations
Map of Nottinghamshire showing the council districts

Average Daily Incidents by Station Area

Note: Incidents are shown for each station area, regardless of which appliance responded

Average Daily Incidents by District

Average Hourly Demand - All Incidents

Average Hourly Demand - Fire Incidents

Average Hourly Demand - False Alarm Incidents

Incident Locations - All Incidents

Map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of all incidents from 2019-2023
Heat map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of all incidents from 2019-2023

Incident Locations - Life Risk Incidents

Map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of all life risk incidents between 2019 - 2023
Heat map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of all life risk incidents between 2019 - 2023

Incident Locations - Average Demand per Year

Map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of all fires between 2019 - 2023
Fire
Map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of all special service calls between 2019 - 2023
Special Service
Map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of all false alarm calls between 2019 - 2023
False Alarm

Incident Locations - Incident Relative Density Heat Maps

Heat map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of Fire incidents
Fire
Heat map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of Special Service incidents
Special Service
Heat map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of False Alarms
False Alarms

Incident Locations - Average Demand per Year - Fire

Map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of all primary fires between 2019 - 2023
Primary Fire
Map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of all secondary fires between 2019 - 2023
Secondary Fire
Map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of all chimney fires between 2019 - 2023
Chimney Fire

Incident Locations - Average demand per Year - Special Service

Map of Nottinghamshire showing the average demand of all the special service calls that are Road Traffic Collisions between 2019 - 2023
Special Service - RTC
Map of Nottinghamshire showing the average demand of all the special service calls that are not Road Traffic Collisions between 2019 - 2023
Special Service. - Other

Incident Locations - Average Demand per Year - AFA

Map of Nottinghamshire showing the average demand of Automatic Fire Alarm incidents (excluding Hospitals and Prisons) between 2019-2023
AFA - Hospitals & Prisons Excluded
Map of Nottinghamshire showing the average demand of Automatic Fire Alarm incidents in hospitals between 2019-2023
AFA - Hospitals
Map of Nottinghamshire showing the average demand of Automatic Fire Alarm incidents in prisons between 2019-2023
AFA - Prisons

Incident Locations - False Alarm

Map of Nottinghamshire showing the average demand of good intent false alarms between 2019 - 2023
False Alarm - Good Intent
Map of Nottinghamshire showing the average demand of malicious false alarms between 2019 - 2023
False Alarm - Malicious

Incident Locations - Other Fires

Map of Nottinghamshire showing the average demand of outdoor fires between 2019 - 2023
Outdoor Fires
Map of Nottinghamshire showing the average demand of road vehicle fires between 2019 - 2023
Road Vehicle Fires

Responses by Over The Border Pumps into Nottinghamshire

Map of Nottinghamshire showing the location of incidents attended by over the border pumps