2020 Fire and Emergency Preparedness (Bulletin)

①Decrease in the number of fires! Fire rate of fire ※This is the smallest since the launch of City of Yokohama, Fire Bureau!
The number of house fires is flat, and the ratio of house fires in building fires has increased to 70%!
・The number of fires in 2020 was 624, down 61 from the previous year and the fire rate was 1.7, the lowest since the establishment of City of Yokohama, Fire Bureau (1948). ※The fire rate refers to the number of fires per 10,000 people.
・Although the number of fires decreased, the proportion of residential fires in total building fires was 70.0%, the highest in the past 10 years.
・Fifteen people died from fires (-7 compared to last year), and all deaths except for arson and suicide were due to house fires.
②The number of emergency participations and transport personnel decreased for the first time in 12 years!
・The number of emergency participations was 194,639, a decrease of 17,756 (-8.4%) from the previous year, which was a record high, and the number of transport personnel was 164,083, a decrease of 18,563 (-10.2%) from the previous year.
・Looking at the ratio of transport personnel by age, 57.3% of elderly people, and those with moderate or higher accounted for 54.0%, both of which are increasing year by year.