SFRS publish fire and rescue incident statistics for 2019 to 2020

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) has published fire and rescue incident statistics for the period 2019 to 2020.

In key findings from the report: 

• The SFRS attended 91,971 incidents, of which 57.8% were false alarms, 26.6% were fires and 15.6% were non-fire related. 
• There were 27 fatal fire casualties, down 18 from 45 in 2018, and 1,024 non-fatal fire casualties, down 14.5% since 2018. 
• There were 438 non-fire fatal causalities, up from 391 in 2018, and 3,208 non-fatal causalities, down 7.9%.

Source: SFRS, 30 October 2020