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Fire Statistics Scotland 2012-13
Statistical bulletin providing statistics on the incidents that Scotland's Fire and Rescue Services attended in 2012-13.
Table 21a: Primary fires in dwellings and other buildings by cause 2012-13 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 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 21 | 15 | 85 | 3 | 22 | - | 206 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 9 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 40 | 1 | 8 | - | 107 |
| Fife | 36 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 30 | 17 | 109 | 2 | 32 | - | 298 |
| Grampian | 72 | 42 | 46 | 23 | 60 | 17 | 267 | - | 28 | - | 555 |
| Highlands & Islands | 8 | 15 | 15 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 43 | 2 | 56 | - | 183 |
| Lothian & Borders | 146 | 90 | 107 | 72 | 138 | 61 | 469 | 2 | 121 | 1 | 1,207 |
| Strathclyde | 486 | 154 | 317 | 156 | 222 | 142 | 1,155 | 6 | 146 | 4 | 2,788 |
| Tayside | 48 | 41 | 40 | 19 | 53 | 21 | 203 | 1 | 50 | - | 476 |
| Scotland | 826 | 394 | 571 | 320 | 558 | 295 | 2,371 | 17 | 463 | 5 | 5,820 |
| 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 | 48 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 30 | - | 118 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 3 | - | 8 | - | 65 |
| Fife | 38 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 31 | - | 132 |
| Grampian | 38 | 19 | 17 | 4 | 58 | 36 | 47 | 1 | 34 | - | 254 |
| Highlands & Islands | 11 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 46 | - | 113 |
| Lothian & Borders | 105 | 39 | 28 | 11 | 69 | 37 | 64 | 3 | 63 | 1 | 420 |
| Strathclyde | 393 | 57 | 70 | 16 | 158 | 103 | 149 | 2 | 138 | 3 | 1,089 |
| Tayside | 35 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 32 | 19 | 26 | 1 | 52 | - | 190 |
| Scotland | 682 | 159 | 146 | 40 | 380 | 238 | 316 | 14 | 402 | 4 | 2,381 |
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 section 6.5.3 vi
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