22% drop in Fire deaths in Scotland

From The Scottish Government:

The main findings of the statistics are:In 2010-11, the total number of fires in Scotland was provisionally 38,927. Primary fires accounted for 34 per cent (13,231) of the total number of fires in 2010-11, 62 per cent (24,162) were secondary fires and 4 per cent (1,534) were chimney fires.

The total provisional number of fires increased by 1 per cent in 2010-11. There was a 5 per cent increase in the provisional number of secondary fires and a 6 per cent decrease in provisional number of primary fires from 2009-10The provisional figure for fatal fire casualties in 2010-11 was 47 - a decrease of 13 (22 per cent) on the revised figure of 60 for 2009-10.

This is the second lowest figure since 2000-01. Of the provisional fire fatal casualties for 2010-11, 40 occurred in dwelling fires and 38 of these were attributed to accidental dwelling firesThe provisional number of non-fatal fire casualties in 2010-11 was 1,294 and 86 per cent of them (1,108) occurred in dwelling fires. Of these 945 occurred in accidental dwelling firesIn 2010-11 the provisional number of special services (non-fire related incidents) attended by Scotland's Fire and Rescue Services was 11,297

Flooding incidents and road traffic collisions are the most often attended type of special service incidents (22 per cent, 21 per cent respectively for 2010-11)The provisional number of false fire alarms attended was 48,752 in 2010-11, of these 71 per cent were due to failure of apparatus