Government of Jersey

JFRS call outs relating to BBQs (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 18 June 2021.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

I would like to request a yearly breakdown of the number of times your fire service were called out to extinguish a barbecue, or were called out to tackle an incident caused by a barbecue (eg called to extinguish a fire in a park, beach or woodland caused by a barbecue) in 2020 and 2021.

Response

The current figures for incidents known to involve BBQ’s are as follows;

2020 - 38
2021 - 8

These figures are indicative only, and do not represent incidents that may have been caused by BBQ’s, only those directly involving BBQ’s as the primary incident type or confirmed cause.