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Fire Statistics Scotland 2011-12
Fire Statistics Scotland 2011-12
Table 21a: Primary fires in dwellings and other buildings by cause 2011-12 provisional - Fire and Rescue Service
| Primary Dwelling Fires | Number | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRS | Deliberate2 | Placing articles too close to heat | Careless handling of fire or hot substances | Cooking - Chip/fat pan fires | Faulty appliances and leads | Faulty fuel supplies | Misuse of equipment or appliance (heat source)1 | Playing with fire | Others | Unspecified | Total |
| Central | 30 | 29 | 16 | 17 | 32 | 7 | 81 | 4 | 29 | 2 | 247 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 10 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 37 | - | 10 | - | 106 |
| Fife | 56 | 31 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 14 | 114 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 303 |
| Grampian | 70 | 56 | 49 | 29 | 72 | 28 | 322 | - | 31 | - | 657 |
| Highlands & Islands | 7 | 25 | 16 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 49 | 1 | 46 | - | 186 |
| Lothian & Borders | 198 | 85 | 93 | 60 | 105 | 68 | 490 | 2 | 95 | 3 | 1,199 |
| Strathclyde | 601 | 154 | 307 | 172 | 216 | 142 | 1,206 | 12 | 129 | 8 | 2,947 |
| Tayside | 61 | 37 | 41 | 28 | 50 | 25 | 211 | 3 | 48 | - | 504 |
| Scotland | 1,033 | 429 | 553 | 347 | 529 | 306 | 2,510 | 24 | 404 | 14 | 6,149 |
| Primary Other Buildings Fires | Number | ||||||||||
| FRS | Deliberate2 | Placing articles too close to heat | Careless handling of fire or hot substances | Cooking - Chip/fat pan fires | Faulty appliances and leads | Faulty fuel supplies | Misuse of equipment or appliance (heat source)1 | Playing with fire | Others | Unspecified | Total |
| Central | 56 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 28 | - | 145 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 20 | 3 | 2 | - | 7 | 7 | 9 | - | 9 | - | 57 |
| Fife | 41 | 9 | 3 | - | 15 | 18 | 15 | - | 31 | 1 | 133 |
| Grampian | 78 | 20 | 19 | 3 | 50 | 27 | 51 | 1 | 34 | - | 283 |
| Highlands & Islands | 16 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 10 | 16 | - | 37 | 9 | 125 |
| Lothian & Borders | 162 | 18 | 39 | 11 | 101 | 39 | 83 | 1 | 90 | 1 | 545 |
| Strathclyde | 454 | 60 | 68 | 21 | 193 | 100 | 195 | - | 154 | 3 | 1,248 |
| Tayside | 31 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 26 | 16 | 31 | 3 | 52 | 3 | 189 |
| Scotland | 858 | 126 | 162 | 44 | 438 | 222 | 417 | 6 | 435 | 17 | 2,725 |
Notes
1 - Under IRS, the category for "Misuse of equipment or appliances" includes incidents which have been recorded as "Other cooking" a new category introduced with IRS. It is believed that the majority of these incidents were previously recorded as the misuse of cooking appliances under the FDR1 collection
2 - there has been a change in recording cause of fires - see paragraph 6.5.3 vi
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