Statistics released by the ODPM reveal that there has been a drop in the number of fire-related deaths in the year to March 2003 – from 602 in 2002 to 574 in 2003. The trend continues a favourable year-on-year trend: 623 in 1999, 613 in 2000 and 606 in 2001.

The fire brigade attended 545 500 fires and 479 200 false alarms in the year, a marginal decrease on the previous 12 months. Of the latter, some 282 700 were attributed to poor apparatus.

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