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FIRE STATISTICS SCOTLAND, 2001
Fires 1,6 in dwellings 2 and other buildings by cause and brigade area, Scotland (England, Wales & N.Ireland) 2001p | Table 10(a) |
Fires 1,6 |
Brigade Area | Cause of Fire |
Total | Malicious 3 | Faulty fuel supplies | Faulty appliance and leads | Misuse of equipment or appliances 4,5 | Chip or fat pan fires 4 | Playing with fire | Careless handling of fire or hot substances | Placing articles and heat too close 5 | Other accidental | Unspecified |
Dwellings 2 |
Central | 338 | 70 | 9 | 21 | 104 | 66 | 4 | 39 | 21 | 1 | 4 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 159 | 24 | 5 | 24 | 50 | 26 | - | 2 | 16 | 13 | - |
Fife | 456 | 90 | 31 | 22 | 96 | 90 | 11 | 49 | 20 | 41 | 5 |
Grampian | 733 | 113 | 12 | 69 | 317 | 107 | - | 52 | 24 | 40 | - |
Highland & Islands | 261 | 14 | 21 | 49 | 55 | 28 | - | 19 | 27 | 46 | 3 |
Lothian & Borders | 1,784 | 564 | 37 | 110 | 501 | 197 | - | 162 | 102 | 103 | 5 |
Strathclyde | 4,314 | 976 | 88 | 374 | 1,194 | 960 | 30 | 343 | 205 | 135 | 2 |
Tayside | 789 | 147 | 12 | 26 | 293 | 120 | 2 | 81 | 39 | 44 | 24 |
Scotland | 8,834 | 1,997 | 214 | 694 | 2,609 | 1,595 | 47 | 748 | 454 | 423 | 43 |
England | 54,779 | 11,450 | 1,701 | 6,248 | 14,806 | 7,082 | 654 | 4,007 | 4,144 | 4,082 | 568 |
Wales | 3,291 | 648 | 118 | 337 | 913 | 537 | 38 | 243 | 215 | 229 | 10 |
N.Ireland | 2,110 | 674 | 61 | 150 | 461 | 247 | 20 | 172 | 101 | 189 | 35 |
Other Buildings |
Central | 224 | 111 | 6 | 34 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 28 | 6 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 93 | 27 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
Fife | 279 | 120 | 37 | 32 | 14 | - | - | 18 | 13 | 38 | 6 |
Grampian | 389 | 137 | 6 | 51 | 73 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 28 | 59 | 5 |
Highland & Islands | 191 | 60 | 8 | 37 | 22 | - | - | 16 | 4 | 40 | 4 |
Lothian & Borders | 724 | 329 | 29 | 119 | 90 | 5 | - | 70 | 21 | 62 | 0 |
Strathclyde | 1,786 | 986 | 89 | 218 | 105 | 53 | - | 124 | 47 | 145 | 18 |
Tayside | 303 | 155 | 19 | 34 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 24 | 19 |
Scotland | 3,989 | 1,925 | 211 | 541 | 343 | 68 | 10 | 275 | 147 | 400 | 68 |
England | 35,963 | 16,146 | 1,721 | 5,382 | 3,929 | 704 | 96 | 1,895 | 1,183 | 4,160 | 737 |
Wales | 2,450 | 1,097 | 126 | 328 | 309 | 35 | 5 | 102 | 94 | 308 | 46 |
N.Ireland | 1,157 | 572 | 77 | 96 | 104 | 6 | 1 | 54 | 44 | 171 | 32 |
1Including "late" call, heat and smoke damage only incidents. Not recorded prior to 1994.
2 Includes caravans, houseboats and other non-building structures used solely as a permanent dwelling
3 Malicious fires include fires where malicious or deliberate ignition was merely suspected
4 Chip or fat pan fires were not recorded prior to 1994, previously included in 'misuse of equipment etc'
5 Prior to 1994 includes fires where person too close to heat/fell on fire, previously included in 'misuse of equipment'.
6The figures are weighted samples and do not necessarily sum to the independently rounded totals - see Annex Note 5.12
p Data for 2001 are provisional.
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