FOI release

Freedom of Information request - Oxygen tank-caused fires

Case reference FOI2026/00875

Received 27 July 2026

Published 13 November 2026

Request

For each calendar year from 2022 to 2025, and from 1 January to 27 July 2026, please provide: 1. The number of fire incidents in which home medical oxygen equipment — including an oxygen cylinder, oxygen concentrator or associated tubing — was recorded as being present or involved. 2. The number of resulting injuries and fatalities. 3. A breakdown by recorded ignition source or cause, where held. 4. For the ten most recent incidents, the date, general property type, ignition source, number of casualties and existing anonymised incident-description text.

Response

The LFB does not hold this information.
Our incident records capture data for the national Incident Record System (now called the Fire and Rescue Data Platform (FaRDaP). The presence of oxygen equipment is not a standard item of data collected. It may be that crews occasionally record in the incident messages that oxygen equipment was involved, but we have no way of reliably identifying that.

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