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Fire
2017-2021 FINANCIAL PLAN
2016 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Surrey Fire Service developed a cadre of City of Surrey ‘Community Engagement
Volunteers’ to deliver important Emergency Preparedness, Smoke Alarm, and Fire &
Fall Prevention messages to community groups.
Electrical Fire Safety Initiative Team’s (“EFSI”) ongoing contributions to improved
environmental conditions included 80 inspections, 40 illegal grow operations
detected, and 67 repair notices issued. The EFSI team is responsible for inspecting
properties showing indications of escalated likelihood of safety contraventions.
Reduced fire related death and injuries
in residential properties:
Smoke Alarm verifications,
comprised of assessing whether
the smoke alarm unit was
functioning at the time of a
residential fire, have increased to
47% in 2016 through a sustained
focus on HomeSafe initiatives;
An indication of these initiatives
can be noted in the residential fire
rate of death/injury which has
decreased by 88% over the last 10
years from 2006: 1.21 per 10,000
residents to 2016: 0.15 (2015: 0.43);
and
The residential fire rate has also
decreased by 49% over the last 10
years from 2006: 2.19 per 1,000
residential structures to 2016:
1.12. A decrease from 2015: 1.23
fires per 1,000 residential struc-
tures to 2016: 1.12 was achieved
despite a significant 4,410 increase
to 187,893 structures in 2016.
Reduced the number of non-compliant
properties through inspection
education strategy for commercial and
multi-residential properties:
The compliancy rate at the time of
an inspection has been
maintained from 91% in 2015 to
90% in 2016;
Conducted an outreach initiative to
1,764 households of patrons of the
Surrey Food Bank providing
opportunities to educate the at-risk
members of the community on the
importance of a working smoke alarm;
INCLUSION
BUILT ENVIRONMENT & NEIGHBOURHOODS
PUBLIC SAFETY
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