Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Fire Safety and Organisational Statistics, Scotland, 2013-14

Footnotes

1. Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (as amended in the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012)

2. Numbers rounded to the nearest thousand. Exact figures are provided in the tables in Appendix 5.

3. Eighty seven per cent of casualties from fires in Scotland in the last ten years have been a result of dwelling fires (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/12/2384/4, section 4.1.3)

4. Scottish House Conditions Survey Data - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SHCS

5. http://www.firescotland.gov.uk/media/724590/sfrs_annual_report_v1.pdf - see page 51

6. All FTE staff totals and total headcount figures compared against them exclude volunteers as FTE data is not collected for volunteers.