Fire Statistics Scotland, 2005

Table 10(a)
Fires ¹ in dwellings ² and other buildings by cause and fire and rescue service area, Scotland (England, Wales & N.Ireland) 2005

FRS Area	Cause of Fire
Fires
FRS Area	Total	Deliberate ³	Faulty fuel supplies	Faulty appliance and leads	Misuse of equipment or appliances	Chip or fat pan fires	Playing with fire	Careless handling of fire or hot substances	Placing articles and heat too close	Other accidental	Unspecified
Dwellings
Central	259	55	13	23	88	41	2	10	15	10	2
Dumfries & Galloway	126	19	13	14	32	10	2	11	15	9	1
Fife	388	53	20	55	116	60	1	31	28	18	6
Grampian	756	128	25	63	336	81	3	32	40	46	2
Highland & Islands	237	21	12	42	70	25	1	15	26	24	1
Lothian & Borders	1,444	337	43	116	516	152	4	122	91	62	1
Strathclyde	3,255	665	96	314	1,174	410	31	192	156	185	32
Tayside	589	91	11	50	216	75	2	48	41	42	13
Scotland	7,054	1,369	233	677	2,548	854	46	461	412	396	58
England	46,608	8,188	1,522	6,030	13,076	5,598	429	3,601	3,554	4,018	592
Wales	2,535	367	139	303	764	313	18	181	188	241	21
N.Ireland	1,556	489	69	120	320	183	11	104	102	135	23
Other Buildings
Central	179	75	10	26	16	3	-	6	3	32	8
Dumfries & Galloway	95	33	13	18	3	-	-	6	5	14	3
Fife	191	62	14	43	12	4	-	8	4	40	4
Grampian	323	88	24	65	63	4	-	17	14	44	4
Highland & Islands	116	36	6	20	15	1	-	10	8	19	1
Lothian & Borders	652	263	38	119	71	11	-	37	21	89	3
Strathclyde	1,377	646	70	286	123	12	1	65	37	110	27
Tayside	257	88	16	40	28	4	-	11	13	43	14
Scotland	3,190	1,291	191	617	331	39	1	160	105	391	64
England	29,375	11,660	1,401	5,356	3,248	606	65	1,408	1,257	3,628	746
Wales	1,756	651	130	274	196	27	1	73	81	286	37
N.Ireland	929	444	73	118	67	14	7	40	39	105	22

¹ Including late call, heat and smoke damage only incidents.
² Includes caravans, houseboats and other non-building structures used solely as a permanent dwelling.
³ Deliberate fires include fires where deliberate or malicious ignition was merely suspected.

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