Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service Year in Review 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, we wanted to share with you some of the incredible work that Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service staff have carried out this year.
We've been protecting, preventing, preparing and responding 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to keep our communities safe.
Between 1st January and 1st December 2022, we responded to:
🚒17,349 incidents in total
🏠870 dwelling fires
🔥5,186 secondary fires
🚗766 road traffic collisions
🚘477 vehicle fires
🐈87 animal rescues
🌊Our Marine Rescue Unit responded to 124 incidents
🐶and our fire dogs were utilised 12 times
☎️Fire Control handled 23,909 emergency calls, including 609 for National Resilience
🏡We've carried out 42,757 home fire safety checks and 8,205 safe and well visits, and 19,499 smoke alarms & 5,682 carbon monoxide alarms.
🏨🧯We've completed 1,264 fire safety audits, consulted on 950 building regulations and completed 295 peak hours inspections.
🛣️We've engaged with more than 5,000 young people, delivering sessions on road, water and bonfire safety.
We will continue to do this and more next year - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
We are Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service.