Our Year 2022-23

Finance 

• Annual Budget £40.5 million
• Ongoing savings £0.3 million 2022-23

Our People 

• DFRS employees a total of 929 people (This figure include dual roles)
• 39 Control staff 
• 358 Wholetime Firefighters 
• 347 On call Firefighters 
• 185 Support staff 
• 12% of operational staff are from under-represented groups. 
• 15% of our operational workforce are female. 

Our Fleet 

• 40 Fire appliances 
• 27 Special appliances

Incidents

• 44,145 Emergency calls answered by Control staff 19% increase on 21/22 
• 87 seconds. The average call handling times for serious fires. 
• 7,175 incidents attended 9% increase on the average. 
• 1,200 deliberate fires. 22% increase
• 387 accidental dwelling fires. 
• 6 fatalities in accidental dwelling fires. 
• 41 serious injuries in accidental fire. 
• 1,780 Emergency Special Services. 20% increase on average.  
• Including 918 incidents where we assisted EMAS or Police
• 55 flooding and water rescue incidents
• 92 animal assistance incidents
• 96 Bariatric rescues. 
• 54 incidents involving suicide attempts. 74% increase on average. 
• 551 RTCs 
• 94 people killed or seriously injured in RTCs attended by DFRS this year. 
• 1,107 over-border mobilisations 

Social reach 

• Facebook page likes 28,808, increase of +3,508
• Instagram followers 4,686, increase of +246
• Twitter followers 29,544, increase of +1,544
• LinkedIn followers 2,649, increase of +505
• TikTok followers 2,366, increase of +1,206

Youth and inclusion activity 

• 115 FireSAFE cases 
• 5 Youth Engagement Schemes (YES) involving 50 young people. 
• 5 DFRS Fire Cadet units across county involving 75 young people 
• New DFRS Youth Council established including 8 youth councillors. 
• Duke of Edinburgh award scheme initiated. 
• 5 Employee Support Networks. 

Collaboration 

• Joint Fire control 
• 1 Police Partner Agency – SV2 Buxton 
• Sharing 8 sites with EMAS 
• Sharing 7 sites with Police 

Assurance 

• 99.8% Wholetime availability 
• 79.3% On-call availability 
• 4,178 visits to no-domestic premises to gather operational risk information and report on fire safety compliance. 

Prevention Activity: Protecting you 

• 2,271 Adults and Children at Risk Referrals 
• 17 Safeguarding Adult and Children referrals. 
• 1,512 EMAS referrals triaged. 
• Over 15,300 Safe and Well checks, 16% increase.
• 564 Safe and Well checks completed by partner agencies. 
• Over 8,000 smoke alarms fitted 
• 533 Schools Fire Safety Talks 
• 34 Portable misting systems installed. 
• 128 DIY Safe and Well Checks 

Awards  

• Head of Safety and Risk Management awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list 2022 
• Fire Magazine - On Call Crew Manager awarded ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Fire and Rescue Service’. A leading blue ribbon lifetime achievement award. 
• NFCC Protection Innovation Award (Risk Based Inspection Programme) 
• NFCC Fire Cadet Chair Award. 
• Women in the Fire Service ‘Young Person Role Model’ Winner 
• Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme – Gold Award 2022 
• Named 19th on Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List 
• Excellence in Fire & Emergency Awards Collaboration of the year finalist – DFRS Youth team 
• ‘Young people’s supporter of the year finalist – DFRS Youth Team 

Protection 

• 1,001 Fire safety audits were carried out of which 429 were unsatisfactory and made safer. 
• 3,029 business consultations 19% increase 
• 2,769 Protection advice given 17% increase 
• 120 Non-domestic property fires. Our lowest ever.
• 56% reduction in incidents between 2009/10 and 2022/23. 
• 16.9% of our non-domestic properties were visited by our crew and prevention team this year exceeding our target.