Strategies, Plans and Performance Information

Local attendance standards 

In June 2018 and following a public consultation, the Fire Authority agreed to: 

• Set an attendance standard for the first fire engine with an ‘on-station’ response of 10 minutes 70% of the time
• Set an attendance standard for the first fire engine with an ‘on-call’ response of 15 minutes 70% of the time 

These are reported quarterly and can be found in the quarterly performance reports below. 

National response times

The Home Office collates information on response times which is published here.

In comparison to all England, fire services classed as significantly rural and our neighbouring fire and rescue services our comparative figures are presented below. Please note ESFRS is classed as significantly rural.  

Quarterly Reports

Performance Outcomes Reports

Service Benchmarking Reports 

Incident data files

The files below contains information on all incidents since April 2013.

They are large Comma Separated Values (CSV) data files and you will need a program to be able to use them.

Microsoft Excel would be one choice but a number of other programs can also be used.

Information about using CSV files with Microsoft Excel can be found on the Microsoft Office help website.

Group Fire Data

Your Service – Our Performance

• Attendance Standards Survey. (Now Closed) 
  

Changing the Service - Shaping our future

The “Changing the Service, shaping the future” program is part of our  Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) work. This is an on-going process to improve and transform our service.    

• Changing the Service - Shaping our future

Marlie Farm significant findings report

Chief Fire Officer & Chief Executive Des Prichard has made good the promise he made on December 5th 2006 and today, (Wednesday July 27th 2011), East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service publishes its Significant Findings Report.  

• Marlie Farm significant findings report

Operational Assessment & Fire Peer Challenge January 2014

In late January 2014, ESFRS hosted a visit by a Fire & Rescue fire peer challenge team, who were here at our invitation.     

Members of the team were knowledgeable about, and experienced in, fire and rescue services and were visiting as 'critical friends'.             

The aim of the peer review was to provide external challenge to the self-assessment produced by us against the Operational Assessment (OpA) Toolkit.

• Operational Assessment & Fire Peer Challenge
  

Lessons Learned

On 25 June 2015, a firefighter fell seriously ill while taking part in a training scenario wearing breathing apparatus at our Service Training Centre in Maresfield.

A joint investigation was carried out with the Fire Brigades Union.

Our “Lessons Learned” report sets out the key findings of this investigation.

Peer View

• Review Documents  

Public Consultation 2014 (Archived)

• This page has information about the consultation for reference purposes only.