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Statistical Bulletin Crime and Justice Series: Fire Statistics Scotland, 2010-11
Statistical information on the incidents attended by Scotland's fire and rescue services for 2010-11.
Table 17a: Primary fires in dwellings and other buildings by cause 2010-11 provisional - Fire and Rescue Service
| Primary Dwelling Fires 1 | Number | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRS | Deliberate 3 | 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)2 | Playing with fire | Others | Unspecified | Total |
| Central | 33 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 25 | 14 | 94 | 1 | 34 | - | 254 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 16 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 39 | - | 13 | - | 110 |
| Fife | 44 | 28 | 24 | 24 | 35 | 21 | 104 | 1 | 19 | - | 300 |
| Grampian | 86 | 55 | 43 | 23 | 46 | 24 | 303 | - | 39 | - | 619 |
| Highlands & Islands 4 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 91 | - | 61 | 13 | 249 |
| Lothian & Borders | 202 | 86 | 97 | 63 | 116 | 40 | 492 | 5 | 111 | 3 | 1,215 |
| Strathclyde | 638 | 132 | 345 | 162 | 273 | 123 | 1,179 | 20 | 142 | 18 | 3,032 |
| Tayside | 49 | 22 | 54 | 39 | 48 | 24 | 237 | 5 | 75 | 4 | 557 |
| Scotland | 1,082 | 370 | 607 | 345 | 575 | 254 | 2,539 | 32 | 494 | 38 | 6,336 |
| Primary Other Buildings Fires | Number | ||||||||||
| FRS | Deliberate 3 | 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)2 | Playing with fire | Others | Unspecified | Total |
| Central | 46 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 25 | 13 | 20 | 1 | 43 | - | 169 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 27 | 3 | 10 | - | 12 | 6 | 4 | - | 19 | - | 81 |
| Fife | 32 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 12 | - | 28 | 2 | 137 |
| Grampian | 57 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 53 | 30 | 67 | 1 | 53 | - | 291 |
| Highlands & Islands 4 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 14 | 29 | - | 42 | 19 | 156 |
| Lothian & Borders | 165 | 34 | 27 | 12 | 87 | 29 | 101 | - | 99 | - | 554 |
| Strathclyde | 446 | 44 | 73 | 22 | 219 | 81 | 200 | 2 | 144 | 8 | 1,239 |
| Tayside | 28 | 8 | 20 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 40 | 2 | 64 | 1 | 210 |
| Scotland | 815 | 138 | 154 | 54 | 465 | 210 | 473 | 6 | 492 | 30 | 2,837 |
Notes
1 - includes caravans and houseboats used solely as a permanent dwelling
2 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
3 - there has been a change in recording cause of fires - see paragraph 6.3.4 vi
4 - see paragraph 6.3.6 for details
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