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Business Safety

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is committed to providing advice and information about fire safety issues and legislation to all businesses across Essex.

On these pages you will find a range of information and links to…

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Online Home Fire Safety Check

Online Home Fire Safety Check

In a bid to reduce the number of house fires in Essex we are encouraging everyone to complete the online home fire safety check to evaluate your own fire risk at home. By answering some simple questions about your home, lifestyle,&nbsp…

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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

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 15,418 incidents across Essex in 2021 to 2022.

A breakdown of the different types are below.

3,744
Fires
5,221
Special Services
6,453
False alarms

Response Times

First attendance to potentially life-threatening incidents

2021 to 2022 - 10 minutes 17 seconds 

Our target average is 10 minutes

First attendance to 90% of all incidents within 15 minutes

2021 to 2022 - 85%

 

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