A fire which broke out in the boiler room of the Beach Arms Hotel in Basingstoke, was detected at the early stages of onset due to a well maintained fire alarm system. The fire was detected and the alarm raised at around midday. Two staff members tried to extinguish the fire with an extinguisher while [...]
The Chinese New Year begins on February 3, 2011 and this year it is the year of the rabbit. For many Chinese this is a time to celebrate the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one. With it comes the opportunity to meet and gather with family members for meals [...]
To improve flexibility and speed for our customers in London, we are opening a fire extinguisher servicing base on the 1st of February in Woking. The depot will be the base for our extinguisher servicing engineers in the London area and will further reduce response times in case of fire extinguisher emergency servicing and extinguisher [...]
As a result of the blaze that saw two people die and a number of buildings damaged in the episode of Emmerdale, shown on January 13, West Yorkshire firefighters were urging the general public to be aware of how to prevent arson. The village where Emmerdale is filmed is located in West Yorkshire. The episode [...]
The symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning are very similar to that of a general cold or flu and as a result can not only be overlooked by the sufferer but can also result in a misdiagnosis by your GP. The main symptoms suffered are headaches, nausea and vomiting, vertigo type symptoms, an alteration in consciousness [...]
A young woman, Miriam Reidy, 35, died on Sunday, 16 January 2011 due to carbon monoxide poisoning at a hotel in Co Cork. Ms Reidy was sharing a bedroom at the Trident hotel with her sister after celebrating the Hen weekend of her cousin. Their room was situated above the boiler room of the hotel. [...]
Six out of ten people who died in fires in 2009 had no smoke alarm fitted in their home, according to figures released by London Fire Brigade. 26 people died in fires where there was no working smoke alarm. The statistics also show that over half of the people who were injured by fires in the [...]
In 1992, the Building Regulations were amended requiring every new build to allow for mains-wired, interconnected smoke alarms to be installed. With many alarms installed under this Regulation still in use and potentially approaching their twentieth year, it was necessary to research a recommendation as to when mains powered smoke alarms should be replaced. Current [...]
