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Firefighting year end|35,000 fire calls received last year, up 2.6% and more than 200,000 confirmed cases were sent to quarantine

2023-01-18T07:10:30.542Z


The Fire Services Department held the 2022 year-end press conference today (18th). The Fire Services Department had a total of 34,885 fire calls in the past year, an increase of 2.6% compared to 2021. The fifth wave of the epidemic broke out in Hong Kong last year, and the fire department received 2,700 cases in a single day


The Fire Services Department held the 2022 year-end press conference today (18th). The Fire Services Department had a total of 34,885 fire calls in the past year, an increase of 2.6% compared to 2021.

The fifth wave of the epidemic broke out in Hong Kong last year. The fire department received 2,700 ambulance calls in a single day, and more than 50% of the cases were related to the epidemic. The time for ambulances to handle cases tripled. The Fire Services Department also transported more than 200,000 confirmed cases to community isolation. facility.


The Fire Services Department held the 2022 year-end press conference on January 18. In the past year, there were 34,885 fire calls, an increase of 2.6% compared with 2021.

(Photo by Kong Fanxu)

The Fire Services Department had a total of 34,775 fire calls last year, an increase of 2.6% year-on-year, a total of 5 fire alarms of level 3 or above, a year-on-year decrease of 1, and a total of 31,111 building fire calls, an increase of 6.7%, of which 94.9% could be called within the specified time Market, while special services 35314 cases, down 2.4%.

There were 740,129 ambulance calls, a decrease of 3.3% year-on-year, and a total of 703,113 emergency ambulance calls, a decrease of 1.7%. 88% of them arrived at the target time, a decrease of 4.5% from the previous year.

During the fifth wave of the epidemic, more than 2,700 ambulance calls were handled in a single day, more than half of which were related to the epidemic, which made the time for ambulances to handle cases 1.5 to 2 times longer than usual. At the same time, 886 ambulance personnel were diagnosed or Those who have to be quarantined but are not on duty account for 25% of the total. The Fire Services Department has activated the Director's Command Room and the Ambulance Command Center, and activated the five-day emergency alert of the Fire Services Department during the Queen Elizabeth Hospital transfer operation.

The Fire Services Department is also responsible for transporting confirmed cases. Last year, more than 200,000 confirmed cases were arranged to be sent to community isolation facilities, including 36 HKDSE candidates who took the exam in the facilities.

In addition, the Fire Services Department expects to recruit 771 fire and ambulance personnel this year, including 141 officers and 630 officers and ranks.

In terms of youth development, the Fire and Ambulance Youth Corps has recruited 180 members and plans to increase the number to 300 this school year; there are also 14 non-Chinese in office, of which 5 are receiving basic training.

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Source: hk1

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