§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons have been killed and how many injured in attempts to save life, as a result of fires, drowning incidents and in other emergencies respectively; how many and what percentage of such persons were fire or police officers or other professionals and how many were private citizens.
§ Mr. Brittan[pursuant to his reply,
Persons reported to have been killed or injured as a result of fires in 1978* United Kingdom Fatal casualties Non-fatal casualties Fire brigade Other Total Fire brigade† Other Total Number of persons— Attempting to rescue people — 7 7 39 201 240 Attempting to fight fire‡ 3 38 41 689 1,579 2,268 Percentage of total— Attempting to rescue people — 100 100 16 84 100 Attempting to fight fire‡ 7 93 100 30 70 100 * Fires reported as attended by local authority fire brigades but not including fires not reported in detail because of the fire service strike. † An additional 323 non-fatal fire brigade or Armed Service casualties were reported in other or unrecorded circumstances while attending fires. ‡ Not including persons recorded as rescuing people from fires.