Fire Outcomes

This section details the Commission’s performance in the achievement of outcomes during 2006/2007.

• The Fire Service’s in-house Station Management System (SMS). The outcomes reflect those incidents the Fire Service attended.
• Fire authority returns to the National Rural Fire Authority.

Fire Outcome – Reduce the Incidence of Fire

National Goal Achieve and maintain the number of fires to less than 500 per 100,000 population.

The following graph shows the rolling 12-month rate of fires attended by the Fire Service in both urban and rural areas per 100,000 people. Fluctuations in this rate are affected by climatic conditions affecting vegetation fires in the summer months and heating-related fires in the winter. In addition, the level of reporting fires to the Fire Service has increased over the last five years. Overall, the rate has trended down over the last nine years.

National Goal Achieve and maintain the number of fires in structures to less than 130 per 100,000 population.

The following graph shows the rolling 12-month rate of fires in structures attended by the Fire Service in both urban and rural areas per 100,000 people. The rate has reduced significantly over the last five years and is now around the level of the five-year national goal.

Key fire safety messages included: don’t cook and fry, the heater metre rule, night safety checks, the safe use of matches and candles and electric blanket checks.