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Council Member Feliz requests fire statistics for 2024
1:15:43
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Council Member Oswald Feliz requests detailed fire statistics for 2024 from FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker and Deputy Commissioner Lizette Christoff, including borough breakdowns and top causes of fires.
- FDNY promises to follow up with specific structural fire data by borough
- Statistics from the Mayor's Management Report are provided, including:
- 19,544 structural residential fires
- 4,465 structural non-residential fires
- 12,260 non-structural fires
Oswald Feliz
1:15:43
A few questions about fires in general, but specifically e bikes.
1:15:48
But I guess the first question is more of a general one.
1:15:51
Can you give us numbers regarding how many fires that we have in 2024?
1:15:55
Can you give us a breakdown by burrow if you have that?
1:15:58
And also, give us information about the top five causes.
1:16:01
I'm sure e bikes is one of them.
Robert Tucker
1:16:07
Buyers by boroughs.
Oswald Feliz
1:16:09
Yep.
1:16:09
Maybe total for 2024, and then, yeah, breakdown by borough.
Robert Tucker
1:16:14
Give me one second, and I'm gonna give you an Take
Oswald Feliz
1:16:17
your time.
Robert Tucker
1:16:30
You're talking about structural fires?
Oswald Feliz
1:16:32
Yes.
1:16:33
Got it.
Robert Tucker
1:16:38
Let us follow-up with you on that.
1:16:41
We have it broken down but not as specifically as you've asked and so we'll come back to you on that.
Oswald Feliz
1:16:48
What about total amount of fires in 2024?
Robert Tucker
1:16:52
The issue that we're having is are you talking about responses?
1:16:56
Is a garbage can that's on fire a fire that you want us to add in, that's what they're fumbling around with now, car fires, etcetera.
1:17:06
But we have some yeah.
1:17:09
I mean, exactly.
1:17:10
This is from the mayor's management.
1:17:12
So Lizette, you wanna just give give him what's in the MMR and then and then we'll we'll we'll come back to you more specifically as it breaks down what structural factors.
Lizette Christoff
1:17:22
Yeah.
1:17:22
So, as recorded in the MMR, so for last fiscal year FY24, the number of structural residential fires was nineteen thousand five hundred and forty four.
1:17:34
The number of structural non residential fires was four thousand four hundred and sixty five.
1:17:40
The number of nonstructural fires was twelve thousand two hundred and sixty.