Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service Plan 2012 to 2015

Annual report 2010 to 2011

Number of all fires

Prevention is better than cure. We spend a lot of time and resources trying to prevent fires - especially in the home. This includes carrying out more than 10,000 home-safety visits each year in Hampshire. We target these visits at people who are vulnerable and more likely to have a fire.

In 2008 we set ourselves a target to reduce the number of fires we attend by 20%.

We are pleased to report a 30% reduction in the number of fires we attended in 2010 to 2011 compared with our 2008 baseline.

This graph shows the number of fires that we attended for every 100,000 people of the population and compares this with the national average. We are pleased that our trend is falling and that we are consistently performing better than the national average.

We will continue to work hard to prevent fires.

Number of all fires attended for every 100,000 people of the population

Key to graph

Red line = Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
Blue line = National average