This report aims to monitor fires incidents during 2018, which occurred within facilities/land sites, agricultural or water areas, based on the press archive. The report covers 2018 incidents which mounted a total of 2220, according to the report’s standards and the press archive on which the research methodology based.
The geographical path of Egypt fire observatory
The geographical path of Egypt fire observatory covers all the governorates of Egypt, according to the available facts. The Observatory mentioned that Giza governorate witnessed the largest number of incidents with a total of 473 incidents followed by Cairo with a total of 386 incidents followed by Menoufia with a total of 170 incidents. while South Sinai had the lowest number with one incident, followed by the Red Sea with a total of 9 incidents.
Incidents according to incident time
The observatory classified 2018 incidents according to incident time – which refers to the month when it occurred – which showed that the largest number of incidents occurred in May with a total of 305 incidents followed by April with 257 incidents followed by June with 207 incidents, while February witnessed the lowest number of 120 incidents followed by November with 137 incidents followed by December, 139 incidents.
Geographical path according to province
The observatory created another classification for geographical path (province) Based on incident location, The Greater Cairo province witnessed the largest number of incidents with a total of 936 incidents, in which the “Residential facility” category top ranked with a total of 611 incidents, followed by the classification of “Industrial facility” with a total of 116 incidents.The Delta province, 404 incidents occurred, in which the classification of “residential facility” also recorded the largest number with a total of 129 incidents, followed by the classification of an “industrial facility” with 82 incidents, while the middle Upper Egypt province witnessed the lowest number with 86 incidents, topped by “animals/ plants farm or garden” classification with 36 incidents. The Northern Upper Egypt province recorded 142 incidents, topped by “residential facility” with a total of 47 incidents, followed by the 33 incidents in “animals/ plants farm or garden” classification.
The statistical path for the number of affected units
The Observatory presents a statistical path for the number of affected units distributed on provinces, which shows that Greater Cairo province witnessed the largest number of affected facilities with 1015 units, followed by the province of Nile Delta with a total 459 units, while middle Upper Egypt witnessed the lowest number with 122 units, followed by Suez Canal province with a total of 176 units.
The number of units affected according to “place of the incident”
For number of units affected according to “place of the incident” classification, “residential facility” recorded the largest number with total of 1348 units affected, followed by “animals/ plants farm or garden” with a total of 385 units, while “charity facility” recorded the least number with a total of 4 units, followed by “public property” with a total of 9 units.
Incident location according to the incident causes
As for the incident location according to the incident causes classification, arson incidents were 62, the unintentional fire reached 2158 incidents, while the classification of “residential facility” recorded the largest number with 1065 incidents (1026 unintentional and 39 arson), followed by classification of “industrial facility” with 310 Incident (305 unintentional, 5 arson), while “charity facility” had 4 incidents (unintentional only), followed by public property with 9 incidents (unintentional only).
The statistical path for the fire cause according to incident place
Observatory states a statistical path for the fire cause according to incident place, “unknown cause” recorded the highest number with 1226 incidents, followed by incidents caused by a short circuit with 655 incidents, the largest number of these incidents was 294 incidents took place in “residential facility”, while the “public property” recorded the lowest number with a total of 2 incidents. While the number of fires caused by flammable materials reached 324, as “residential facility” classification recorded the largest number with 133 incidents. No incidents of fires were reported due to flammable substances under the classification of “charity facility”.
Casualties distribution according to incident location
As for “casualties distribution according to incident location” classification, the total number of casualties was 845 (732 injured and 113 deaths). For the injuries, 415 males and 116 females were injured, while the total of non-specified gender casualties was 201.
The observatory shows that residential facilities recorded the highest number of injuries with 376 people (140 male, 91 female, 145 unspecified), followed by industrial facilities with a total of 140 injuries (134 male, 1 female, 5 undetermined).As for deaths, residential facilities headed with a total of 95 deaths (46 males, 49 females) followed by “animals/ plants farm or garden” with 6 deaths (4 males, 2 females).
Casualties according to incident cause
The observatory states that “casualties according to incident cause”, that “no victims” recorded the highest number with 1969 incidents, included 1125 with unknown cause, and 597 incidents caused by short circuit, while the classification of “one victim” recorded 100 incidents of which 37 with unknown cause and 33 incidents resulted from a “short circuit”, followed by “2 to 5 victims” with a total of 116 incidents, of which 48 with unknown cause and 44 caused by flammable substances, followed by “6 to 10 victims” with 26 incidents of which 15 were caused by flammable substances,
followed by the “more than 11 victims” classification with a total of 9 incidents included 6 with unknown cause and one incident other classifications.
Non-human losses according to the fire cause
As for “non-human losses according to the fire cause” classification, the largest number of non-human losses were recorded in the incidents with unknown cause with a total of 1408 incidents, Followed by In-kind losses with 655 incidents, of which 276 incidents of fire caused by a short circuit which recorded the highest number, followed by 249 with unknown cause, followed by 128 incidents caused by flammable materials. “In-kind and livestock losses” incidents recorded 114 incidents, including 56 incidents caused by short circuit, followed by 30 unknown cause incidents, followed by 28 incidents were caused by flammable materials.
Observatory states that number of affected units resulted in non-human losses recorded 2659 units, the largest number of which “undefined number of resulted losses” with total of 1595 incidents, followed by 766 affected units with “in-kind losses”, followed by 207 damaged units resulted in “In-kind and livestock losses”, followed by 89 affected units led to “livestock losses” only, followed by 2 affected units led to “financial losses”.
Number of units affected according to the cause of fire
As for “number of units affected according to the cause of fire” classification the observatory states that the total number of affected units reached 1462 units with “unknown cause”, followed by 775 affected units in which fire resulted from a short circuit, followed by 404 affected units resulted from fire caused by flammable materials, followed by 18 affected units resulted from fire caused by environmental factors.
Number of affected units by method of extinguishing
Observatory classified units according to “number of affected units by method of extinguishing”, in which number of incidents extinguished by civil protection recorded 2525 units to come in top of classification, followed by 120 units with unknown extinguishing method, followed by 14 units in which the fire was extinguished by the people.
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