Fire Incidents Caused by Vapes and E Cigarettes

Please provide the following information for each of the last five calendar years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.



1) The number of fire incidents attended by your service where a vape, e-cigarette, disposable vape, or vape battery was recorded as the suspected or confirmed cause of fire.



2) Please include incidents identified through any relevant cause, ignition source, item first ignited, incident notes, or recorded free-text fields.



3) For each year, please provide the number of these incidents involving:

discarded disposable vapes waste, bins, refuse vehicles, recycling centres, landfill, transfer stations, or waste facilities



4) For each year, please provide the total number of fire engines or other fire service vehicles sent to these incidents.



5) or each year, please provide the total number of firefighter hours spent attending these incidents.



6) For each year, please provide the estimated cost of attending these incidents.

If incident-level cost data is not held, please provide any standard call-out cost, appliance cost, hourly firefighter cost, or internal costing formula used by your service.



7) Please provide the information in spreadsheet format where possible.

1-7. Please see attached spreadsheet.

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