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Climate Change: managing the operational impact on fires and other weather-related emergencies

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Thematic inspections

25th September 2023

This report focuses on the SFRS’s operational activity due to climate change and presents the Chief Inspector’s independent view of the current arrangements.
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction and Background
  • Summary
  • List of Recommendations
  • Our Inspection Findings
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.1 Response to Flooding
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.2 Response to Wildfire
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.3 Other Issues - Community Asset Register
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.3 Other Issues - Resource allocation
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.3 Other Issues - SFRS Business Continuity
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.3 Other Issues - Accidental Drownings
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.3 Other Issues - Emerging Risks - Electric Vehicles and Lithium-ion batteries
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Appendix A - Overview of water level system training
  • Appendix B - About HM Fire Service Inspectorate
  • Appendix C - How this inspection was carried out
  • Appendix C - Methodology
  • Footnotes

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction and Background
  • Summary
  • List of Recommendations
  • Our Inspection Findings
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.1 Response to Flooding
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.2 Response to Wildfire
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.3 Other Issues - Community Asset Register
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.3 Other Issues - Resource allocation
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.3 Other Issues - SFRS Business Continuity
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.3 Other Issues - Accidental Drownings
  • Our Inspection Findings - 4.3 Other Issues - Emerging Risks - Electric Vehicles and Lithium-ion batteries
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Appendix A - Overview of water level system training
  • Appendix B - About HM Fire Service Inspectorate
  • Appendix C - How this inspection was carried out
  • Appendix C - Methodology
  • Footnotes

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to those employees of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS), the members of partner agencies, and those individuals who provided us with information and contributed constructively to our interviews and fieldwork.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laid before the Scottish Parliament by HM Chief Inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service under section 43C(5) of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005

September 2023 SG/2023/153

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