June 5th, 2017
The Fire Service Academy of the Institute for Safety (IFV) structurally gathers data on fatal residential fires in the Netherlands. In this process the Fire Service Academy cooperates with the fire brigades and fire research teams involved in these fires. They provide data on fatal residential fires through a questionnaire. The respondents are approached based on information from press reports about a fatal residential fire in their region. In this way fatal residential fires where the fire service did not assist are included. An example of this is a fire that has already been extinguished at the time of discovery.
