Firefighters made a private donation of books to the CTIF fire museum in Pribyslav
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At the working meeting of the Centre for Fire Statistics, firefighters again handed over a number of books as private donations on June 13, 2025.
The past working year of the statistics team was summed up.
The Centre for Fire Statistics team has completed all preparatory work on the publication '100 Years—100 Cities—The Evaluation of Urban Fire Risks.' This comprehensive work, involving about 80 authors from a wide variety of cities, is now in the publishing house for further use. Due to the extensive material collected, the authors have decided to present the work in four volumes. We are excited to announce the publication of this significant work in the near future.
The team is also preparing the publication '100 Years—100 Cities—The Evaluation of the Fire Risks of German Cities.' This work, focusing on the years 1900 to 2000, aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation of fire risks in German cities, including those with professional and volunteer fire brigades. We invite all interested parties to contribute to this important project.
Every year, a new edition of the World Fire Brigade Statistics will be published in 2025 (Report No. 30).
This year, two special chapters will be added. On the one hand, we are evaluating the fire situation in India. Various sources sometimes contain contradictory information. The Centre for Fire Statistics presents its point of view. We ask the Indian fire brigades to participate in further developing the world fire brigade statistics.
Another chapter is dedicated to the topic of fires in high-rise buildings. For this purpose, international literature sources were evaluated, and statistical information on the subject was compiled. Special attention will be paid to the use of high-rise buildings. It was possible to compile overviews for hotels, residential high-rises, and other types of use. The chapter on the survey results on high-rise buildings among CTIF members is significant. The results from 19 countries will be presented.
During the meeting, questions about the future work of the Centre for Fire Statistics were also discussed. This applies in particular to the following questions:
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Correlation between national fire statistics and fire safety issues at international conferences,
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Discrepancy between CTIF and WHO data on the number of recorded or estimated fire deaths;
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Cultural and geographical factors influencing the determination of fire risks in the regions,
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Countries' experiences in comparing WHO fire mortality data with data from national fire brigades' fire statistics;
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Conclusions from the current risk assessment of fire risks for future research directions and ways to improve data accuracy,
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Social factors (e.g., education, building standards, and fire protection systems) influence fire mortality.
We hope for active international support. Anyone interested can contact the Centre for Fire Statistics via the contact form.
Cover photo: In the picture from left to right: Jan Karel (Archive and Library Pribyslav), Iveta Krpalkova (Head of the Archive), Harald Herweg (CTIF Centre for Fire Brigade Statistics), Jana Fialova (Director of the Fire Brigade Museum and Library), and Peter Wagner (CTIF Centre for Fire Brigade Statistics)