Q1 performance summary 2022-23

April - June 2022

Incident Activity

1,888 incidents attended between April and June, 1% less incidents than last year.
In Q1, our crews attended 869 fire incidents, a reduction of 2% on last year.

We attended 22 hoax fire calls in Q1, distracting our crews from potential life-threatening situations.

In Q1, 10,700 emergency calls were answered by Joint Control staff who achieved an average call handling time of 88 seconds to fires in buildings or vehicles
Our first pumps arrived at 74.5% of life-risk fires within 10 minutes of being mobilised, which is slightly below our target of 80%
This quarter, our On-Call appliance availability was 80% while Wholetime pumps were available more than 99% of the time
Casualties and Fatalities
2 accidental fire deaths in Q1 with 15 people hospitalised with injuries from accidental fires.

115 accidental house fires attended between April and June, 60 of these fires were cooking related and 15 were as a result of smoking.
50 fires in April is the second highest monthly total since 2009/10.
82% of houses that had an accidental fire in Q1 had a smoke alarm fitted.

Crews attended 403 deliberate fires in Q1, our second highest recorded quarterly total of the last decade. Almost 2/3 of these fires involved grass and rubbish fires outdoors.
Chesterfield, Heanor and Nottingham Road all saw notable spikes in deliberate fires.

DFRS attended over 400 emergency special service incidents in Q1, including helping out Police and Ambulance on 121 occasions and 20 animal rescues

9 people were killed, and 22 seriously injured at RTCs attended by DFRS during Q1.

2 accidental water fatalities occurred in quarter 1, and a further 4 people were rescued in water incidents.

By the end of June, 14% of our operational workforce were from under-represented groups, and 11.2% of our operational workforce were female.
During quarter 4, we recorded 2.4 average shifts lost to sickness.

Between January and March, we delivered over 3,700 Safe and Well checks to vulnerable people in Derbyshire
We fitted almost 2,000 smoke alarms
Over 48 people were referred on to other agencies to help support their Health and Wellbeing.
53 people used our new online Safe and Well checks system

We attended 42 fires in commercial buildings between April and June.
Our crews and protection teams visited over 2,000 commercial properties in Derbyshire to identify any potential risks to crews and to ensure compliance with fire regulations.

During the quarter we undertook 19 training exercises, 7 included multi-agency exercises and 4 with over-border crews.