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Fire brigades respond more rapidly to alarms
Fire brigades arrive sooner at the scene in the case of chimney and indoor fires. Last year, the dispatch time, i.e. the time interval between receipt of the alarm in the emergency room and departure...
Fire brigade employees; professional and voluntary, ranks, region 2000-2019
Fire brigade employees; professional and voluntary, ranks, education, region
Fire services; assistance, object and activities 1985-2013
Assistances by the fire brigade by object and activities, divided by regions, provinces and size of cities
Dutch fire services respond quicker to fire alarms
The departure time of Dutch fire services has improved further in 2009. On average, it takes 5 minutes for fire engines to leave the station after a fire alarm has been received.
Fire service attending to more non-fire incidents
In 2019, the control room of The Netherlands Fire Service processed 238 thousand reported incidents, i.e. 3 percent less than in the previous year. The number of reports and call-outs was up for both...
New fire services statistic based on 112 alarm centre
The statistic is no longer based on survey data from questionnaires but on records from the 112 emergency alarm centre.
Motor vehicles admitted; type, age class, 1 January
Active motor vehicle fleet as of January the first Vehicle age
Fire services; fire and assistance reports 1985-2013
Fires reports, assistance reports and false alarm reports Province and size of cities
Fire services; fires, victims and rescues, employees, costs 1985-2013
Fires by cause and object, indoor fires, outdoor fires, victims and rescues, employees, fire equipment, costs
Chimney fire
Fire in a smokestack.
Financial instruments: From-whom-to-whom matrices; National Accounts
Financial transactions between institutional sectors Sectors, balance sheets and transactions
Number of women in fire services no longer growing
There were 1,571 women firefighters in the Netherlands on 1 January 2009. One year previously there were still 1,586. It is first time since 2000 that the number of female firefighters did not...
Fewer fires, more emergency call-outs in 2010
Nearly 41 thousand fires were registered last year; 23 thousand were outside fires. The number of outside fires has not been this low since the late 1980s.
More alarm call-outs fire services in 2015
In 2015, fire station control rooms received a total of 234 thousand reports of incident, slightly more than in 2014. Over half of these cases were fire emergencies, the other calls were requests for...
Damage caused by fires highest in half a decade
The amount of damage caused by fires totalled 1 billion euro in 2008, the highest amount since 2003. The number of fires declined marginally relative to 2007, but fires claimed more lives.
Hot summer created more work for fire services
The Netherlands Fire Service control rooms received 245 thousand reports in 2018, 12 percent more than in 2017.
Current transactions by sectors; National Accounts
Current transactions and balancing items of institutional sectors Sectors, resources and uses, balancing items
New fire services statistic based on 112 alarm centre
The statistic is no longer based on survey data from questionnaires but on records from the 112 emergency alarm centre
Traffic performance motor vehicles; kilometres, type of vehicle, territory
Vehicle-kilometers Dutch and foreign vehicles, passenger cars, delivery vans, lorries, road tractors, special purpose vehicles, buses