Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service Year in Review 2023

As 2023 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 2023, we responded to:
🚒17,714 incidents in total
🏠684 dwelling fires
🔥2,590 secondary fires
🚗802 road traffic collisions
🚘477 vehicle fires
🐈98 animal rescues
🌊Our Marine Rescue Unit responded to 118 incidents
🐶and our fire dogs were utilised 9 times
☎️Fire Control handled 20,360 emergency calls, including 655 for National Resilience
🏡We've carried out 50,571 home fire safety checks and 10,598 safe and well visits, and 8,611 smoke alarms.
🏨🧯We've completed 1,778 fire safety audits, consulted on 1,075 building regulations and completed 207 peak hours inspections.
🛣️We've engaged with thousands of 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.