Suicide-related callouts to fire services triple in England in a decade

Exclusive: Samaritans calls for mandatory training for firefighters amid rise in incidents Suicide-related callouts to fire and rescue services in England have tripled in the last decade, with Samaritans now calling for mandatory training for firefighters, who they say are struggling to deal with the increase in traumatic incidents. New figures show that fire services in England attended 3,250 suicide callouts in the year ending September 2025, the equivalent to 62 callouts a week. This was u...

By Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent