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Appendix One – Incident Type Definitions
Event Type
Full Name
Description
MIN
Minor Event
Alarm activation (residential)
Fires in Structures presumed out
Fires involving:
• chimney
• clothing bin
• telephone box
• post box (not attached to building)
• power pole
• rubbish (incinerators)
• gas cylinders (non-commercial & outside)
• inside a domestic oven
• cars
• motorbikes
• caravans under tow
• small boats, yachts, launches under 10m
• Microlights/gliders/hang gliders/paragliders (for crashes, see RESC)
• motor mowers
Cats up trees and similar non-entrapment animals
Fuel spillages (outside property)
• less than 30 litres
• cars leaking petrol
All small fires (outside property)
• no ability to spread
• no danger to property or vegetation

• no danger to people
Fire Station security alarm
Investigations
• bells ringing in commercial premises]
• bomb alerts (not exploded)
Vessels sinking
• Small vessels only
Unusual smell in private dwellings, ships or aircraft (not smoke)
MED
Medical Assistance
Co-response request from Ambulance
MED
Medical First Response
First Response Unit request from Ambulance
RESC
Rescue
All rescues, except those involving motor vehicles, e.g. industrial extrications, cliff rescues, entrapment
underground etc.
Also includes crashes involving Microlights/gliders/hang gliders/paragliders
Also includes animal extraction (except cats up trees - see MIN)
MVC
Motor Vehicle Crash
Motor vehicle crash where all people are out of the vehicles
MVRESC
Motor Vehicle Crash Rescue
Motor vehicle crash rescue, where there is someone inside, or they are trapped or can’t get out, or if
the caller is uncertain.
MVCHEVY
Motor Vehicle Crash - Heavy Rescue
Motor vehicle crash heavy rescue that involves a heavy vehicle (train, truck, bus, tractor, etc) or any
vehicle crash into a building or structure.