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Statistics on residential fires

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From: Brendan Young

Dear Fire and Emergency New Zealand,

I was wondering if you could provide recent statistics and information (from 2021 onwards) on the following;

1. The 10 most common causes of residential fires in new Zealand
2. the average number of fires per month in Auckland and Christchurch
3. What age brackets have the highest rate of fatalities for residential fires
4. How many properties of residential fires had working smoke alarms and of those that had smoke alarms how many were not working
5. The most common cause of death for fatal fires in residential properties

Yours faithfully,

Brendan Young

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Attachment OIA 2022 9936 Response.pdf
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Attachment OIA2023 00009936 Residential Structure Fire statistics since Jan 2021 Response.pdf
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