E bike or E scooter Fires 2019 to 2025

Request

From your incident recording system, please provide information relating to fire incidents attended by your service between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2025 where the source of ignition was recorded as an e-bike or e-scooter (including

associated batteries).

If data is not available to 31 December 2025, please provide data up to the most recently available date and include what date that is.

 

Specifically, please provide:

(1) A monthly breakdown, by calendar year, of the number of such incidents attended.

(2) The total number of casualties resulting from these incidents

(3) The total number of fatalities resulting from these incidents.

(4)The highest number of casualties recorded in any single incident within this dataset.

(5) The number of these incidents that occurred in dwellings.Where recorded, the size of fire for these incidents (e.g. item, room, one floor, two or more floors, whole building). 

Decision

 

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you. 

 

1-5. Please see attached document for answers to all questions. Please note that the data is based on wildcard searches of free-text fields and as such may not be fully accurate.

Should you require the attachments mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.

Reference number
15042969
Date request received
13 January 2026
Date of decision
22 January 2026