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Incident Reports

We share information on our website about the incidents we attend in a couple of different ways:

  • We sometimes share details of the incident and what's happened on our incident pages.  
  • We also publish figures for the numbers of incidents we've attended.  

You can find our full incident data on our transparency website. 

Transparency website
Visit our incident homepage

If you would like to request an extract from a fire report, please contact

our Freedom of Information Team.

Or you can write to them at: 

Freedom of Information Team 
Essex County Fire & Rescue Service Headquarters 
Kelvedon Park 
Rivenhall 
Witham 
Essex 
CM8 3HB 

Please be aware that in certain circumstances, we may need to ask permission from the property owner or occupier before we can release the fire report to you. 

 

 
Incident numbers across Essex

Our crews went to 16,608 incidents across Essex in 2024.

A breakdown of the different types are below.

 
3,723
Fires
 
4,256
Special Services
 
7,344
False alarms
 
Response times

Our target response times, as set out in our Community Risk Management Plan are: 

 
14 mins
Rural
 
10 mins
Urban

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