People burning toast and coronavirus lockdowns led to an increase in calls received by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service last year.
The number of key incidents dealt with during the last financial year have been outlined in a comprehensive report to Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority’s policy and resources committee ahead of its meeting on Thursday. An assessment of the service’s key performance indicators from April 2021 to March this year identified that almost 22,700 emergency calls were received during that period and an attendance at more than 18,000 individual incidents.
Among them were 6,034 false alarms where officers attended, an increase of 537 on the year previously. The report said while the majority of those calls were due to accidental or careless occurrences, “burnt toast incidents” accounted for firefighters needing to be called out.
