City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

FIRE

by ensuring that property owners maintain their properties in order to reduce the risk of fire, loss of life or injury: 722 Properties identified by the CPST since inception, 413 Properties demolished as a direct result of the CPST actions, and 56 Properties re-invested. These continued efforts have decreased fire rates by 85% from 11.2 abandoned structure fires per 100 structure fires in 2019 to 1.6 abandoned structure fires per 100 structure fires in 2020.

PUBLIC SAFETY

• Reduced fire related death and injuries in residential properties through the continued refinement of the HomeSafe Program; • Smoke alarm verifications, comprised of assessing whether the smoke alarm unit was functioning at the time of a residential fire, have increased from 25% in 2006 to 61.6% in 2020; • Inspected 7,549 business properties and provided 6,956 safety educational inspection pamphlets to the business proprietors. This ongoing initiative bolsters the City’s efforts to improve the resiliency of businesses in the

event of a disaster or major incidents; • In collaboration with engineering/GIS, properties with potential urban/ wildland fire risk were targeted for delivery of smart fire educational brochures; • The 2020 residential fire rate of 0.48 fires per 1,000 residential structures has decreased by 77.1% from 2006 as depicted in the chart below; • The residential fire rate of death/injury per 100,000 residents has decreased by 69% from 2006 from 10.9 casualties per 100,000 residents to 3.4 casualties for 2020;

Source: Fire Department, Office of Fire Commission

City of Surrey | 2021—2025 Financial Plan | General Operating Fund | Fire

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