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How to use Community Map

  • Searching for your address:
To search for your address click on the Address Search button.  You will then be given a free text box to enter either your post code or street. Once you have entered your address details, click the Search button. The results from your search are displayed on the right hand side.  If you click on your address in the results tab the map will zoom into your street.
 
  • Add Fire Stations to the map:
Click on the Stations icon to add the location of Dorset Fire and Rescue Services (DFRS) fire stations to the map.
 
  • Adding Incidents to the map:
Clicking on the Incident button will open up further options so you can select an Incident type and date options to add to the map. When you have selected the options you wish to see on the map, you will be given further options to display your selection on the current map zoom or you can draw a user defined area, rectangle or circle to display the incidents within these areas.  
 
  • How to zoom back to the default zoom level:    
Clicking on the Home icon will return the map to its default zoom level.
 
  • How to clear the map:
Clicking on the Clear Map button will clear any information from the map.
 

How often does Community Map Update?

Community Map updates on a daily basis and shows information on a Year to Date Basis for the current calendar year and shows the whole year for the previous calendar year. For example data for 2010 would be between 01/01/2010 – 31/12/2010.
 
Incident Types:

  • Accidental Dwelling Fires                                        
Accidental dwelling fires are fires in dwellings where the cause of the fire was accidental.
  •  Primary Fires
 Primary fires include all fires in buildings, vehicles and some outdoor structures or any fire involving casualties, rescues or fires attended by five or more appliances.
  • Secondary Fires
 An incident that did not occur at a Primary location, was not a chimney fire in a building, did not involve casualties (otherwise categorised as a Primary incident) and was attended by four or fewer appliances (otherwise categorised as a Primary incident).
 
These are fires that:
1.   were not chimney fires
2.   did not occur at Primary locations
3.   did not involve casualties, resources or escapes
4.   were attended by four or fewer appliances.

  • Deliberate Fires
 Deliberate fires include all fires where the cause of the fire was deliberate.
  • Heath Fires
"Any unplanned and uncontrolled wildland fire that, regardless of ignition source, may require suppression response or other action according to agency policy".
 
False Alarms - False alarms include all of the following False Alarm categories:
  • Fire False Alarm - Where the FRS attends a location believing there to be a fire incident, but on arrival discovers that no such incident exists, or existed.
  • False Alarm due to Apparatus - are calls initiated by fire alarm and fire-fighting equipment operating (including accidental initiation of alarm apparatus by persons or where an alarm operates and a person then routinely calls the FRS as part of a standing arrangement, i.e. with no ‘judgment’ involved, for example from a security call center or a nominated person in an organisation). Apparatus – (fire) detection and alert/call equipment
  • Good Intent False Alarms - are calls made in good faith in the belief that there really was an incident.  Can include where the FRS is summoned by a person utilising a call point/alarm or phone.
  • Malicious False Alarms - are calls made with the intention of getting the FRS to attend a non-existent incident, including deliberate and suspected malicious intentions.
Special Services
Non-fire incidents which require the attendance of an appliance or officer and include:
(a) Local emergencies; such as, road traffic incidents, rescue of persons, 'making safe' and so on
(b) Major disasters
(c) Domestic incidents; such as, water leaks, persons locked in or out and so on
(d) Prior arrangements to attend incidents, which may include some provision of advice and inspections.
 
  • Road Traffic Collisions - Where a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction, such as a tree or road furniture.  
  • Fatalities & Injuries in Road Traffic Collisions (Police Data) - Dorset Fire & Rescue Service may not attend all Road Traffic Collisions which are attended by the Police.

Terms of use

Community Map has been developed to give Dorset’s residents an idea of the type and number of incidents which are attended in their local area.
DFRS does not accept any responsibility for any use made of this site or its data outside of its intended use.