Call Categories / Special Service Calls
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Request
I was just wondering if I would be able to have every single call category in West Midlands and what all incidents come under like special services calls . Alarms . Rtcs . Fires . And what types of incidents come under for example what a smell of burning call would come under and many more call types for regular stations and technical rescue
Reply
We manage incidents as Level 1 to 8.
Acronyms:
WMFS – West Midlands Fire Service
SFRS – Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service
FS – Fire Safety
PR – Persons Reported
MTA – Marauding Terrorist Attack
RTC – Road Traffic Collision
MWAY – Motorway
OB – Over Border
SSC – Special Service Call
USAR – Urban Search And Rescue
NRFC – National Resilience Fire Control
Our Incident Types and Incident Levels are listed below: –
Incident Levels
1 – Life & Property
2 – Secondary Fires
3 – Standby Incident
4 – Revisit
5 – Controlled Burning
6 – Prevention
7 – Safeguarding
8 – Over Border Information Only
Incident Level & Incident Type
2 – ABANDONED CALL
1 – AIRCRAFT GLIDER/MICROLIGHT sfrs
1 – AIRCRAFT LARGE sfrs
1 – AIRCRAFT LIGHT/MILITARY sfrs
1 – AIRPORT – AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT/IMMINENT LEVEL 1 wmfs
1 – AIRPORT – AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT/IMMINENT LEVEL 2 wmfs
1 – AIRPORT – FULL EMERGENCY LEVEL 1 wmfs
1 – AIRPORT – FULL EMERGENCY LEVEL 2 wmfs
2 – ALARMS NON SLEEPING
1 – ALARMS SLEEPING MANAGED
1 – ALARMS SLEEPING NON MANAGED
1 – ANIMAL IN WATER sfrs
2 – ANIMAL LARGE
1 – ANIMAL LARGE IN WATER wmfs
2 – ANIMAL SMALL
2 – ASSIST AMBULANCE
2 – ASSIST POLICE
1 – BIN FIRE INSIDE
2 – BLEEPING SFRS SMOKE ALARM NON BLUE LIGHT sfrs
1 – BOAT FIRE
1 – BURNS
2 – CANAL EMBANKMENT FIRE
1 – CAR FIRE
1 – CAR FIRE ELECTRIC sfrs
1 – CARAVAN FIRE
1 – CARBON MONOXIDE
1 – CHIMNEY FIRE
1 – CONFINED SPACE
5 – CONTROLLED BURNING
2 – CYLINDER
5 – DEATH OF A FIREFIGHTER
1 – DIM REQUEST
2 – ELECTRIC SHOCK
2 – EXERCISE
1 – EXPLOSION
1 – FACTORY FIRE
1 – FARM FIRE
1 – FIRE
1 – FIRE PR
2 – FLOODING
1 – FLOODING AFFECTING ELECTRICS
2 – FS ISSUE
1 – GARAGE FIRE
1 – GAS LEAK
1 – HAZ MATS ACCIDENTAL wmfs
1 – HAZ MATS DELIBERATE wmfs
1 – HAZ NATS sfrs
1 – HOUSE FIRE
1 – HOUSE FIRE PR
5 – INFORMATION ONLY
5 – INJURY TO FIREFIGHTER
2 – INSPECTION CALL
2 – LATE FIRE CALL
2 – LIFT
2 – LOCK IN/OUT
2 – LOSS OF 999
1 – LOW RISE FIRE
1 – LOW RISE FIRE PR
2 – MALICIOUS
1 – MASS DECONTAMINATION
1 – METRO FIRE wmfs
2 – METRO GRASS FIRE wmfs
1 – METRO SSC wmfs
1 – MODERN SLAVERY/HUMAN TRAFFICKING wmfs
2 – MOTORBIKE FIRE
5 – MOTORWAY CLOSURES
1 – MTA
1 – MWAY HAZMATS
1 – MWAY RTC
1 – MWAY RTC PR
1 – MWAY SECONDARY FIRE
1 – MWAY SPILLAGE
1 – MWAY SSC
1 – MWAY VEHICLE FIRE LARGE
1 – MWAY VEHICLE FIRE SMALL
8 – OB SPATE INFORMATION ONLY
1 – PERSON ON FIRE
1 – PIPELINE
2 – POSTBOX FIRE
6 – PREVENTION
1 – PRISON
1 – PUBLIC DISORDER
1 – PYLON FIRE
1 – RADIATION
2 – RAILWAY EMBANKMENT FIRE
1 – RTC
1 – RTCPR
7 – SAFEGUARDING INCIDENT
2 – SECONDARY FIRE
1 – SHED FIRE
2 – SKIP FIRE
1 – SMELL OF BURNING
1 – SMOKE DETECTOR
2 – SMOKE IN AREA
2 – SPATE INCIDENT
2 – SPILLAGE
2 – SSC
3 – STANDBY
2 – STANDING CROP FIRE sfrs
2 – STAYSAFE
2 – STRUCTURE IN A DANGEROUS CONDITION
1 – SUB STATION FIRE
1 – TALL BUILDING CHUTE sfrs
1 – TALL BUILDING CHUTE wmfs
1 – TALL BUILDING FIRE PR sfrs
1 – TALL BUILDING FIRE PR wmfs
1 – TALL BUILDING FIRE sfrs
1 – TALL BUILDING FIRE wmfs
1 – TALL BUILDING SMOKE DETECTOR
5 – TEST ALARMS
2 – TEST INCIDENT
1 – THATCHED FIRE sfrs
1 – TRAIN FIRE
1 – TRAIN SSC
1 – VEHICLE FIRE LARGE
1 – VEHICLE FIRE SMALL
1 – WATER RESCUE INCIDENT
This is the criteria for informing Tech Rescue. The Duty Tech Rescue Advisor is informed and will and inform Fire Control of the resources that will attend the incident.
Tech Rescue Advisor Incidents
Informing Criteria
· Requests to move bariatric patients
· Large Animal Rescue
· Water Rescue Incidents
· Operation Plato/MTA/Extreme Threat incidents
· Requests for USAR Deployment via NRFC
· Collapsed Structures
· *Rescues from height*
· Confined space incidents
· On request from Incident Commander
More Information on Special Service Calls can be found here: https://www.wmfs.net/legal-terms-policy/fire-and-rescue-services-act-2004-and-special-service-calls-policy/
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