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  • West Midlands Fire Service to charge for non-emergency call-outs

    16 May 2012

    West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) is set to start charging over £400 an hour to attend non-emergency incidents. Following a £30 million cut to its budget, the brigade is looking to ...


  • Arsonists hit former indoor go-kart track for third time

    16 May 2012

    Arsonists have attacked a former indoor go-kart track for the third time in the space of just a few days. Fire crews were called to the derelict building at Tuckingmill, near ...


  • Dundee recycling plant hit by fire

    16 May 2012

    A recycling plant in Dundee has been damaged after a fire broke out in the building earlier this morning (16th May). Around 30 firefighters were called to Dundee Energy Recycling Limited ...


  • Vandals start fire in Surrey church

    15 May 2012

    Vandals broke in to a church in Surrey and set fire to hymn books and other items in the building Fire crews were called to the Church of the Holy Spirit ...


  • Worcester pub damaged in blaze

    15 May 2012

    Firefighters in Worcester have claimed that a blaze which broke out in a local pub could have been far worse as no smoke alarms were fitted in the building. Fire crews ...


  • Train services hit following Welsh factory fire

    15 May 2012

    Train services in south Wales have been cancelled after a large fire broke out in a factory in Blaenau Gwent. Fire crews were called to Glandwr industrial estate, near Aberbeeg, at ...


  • Apollo growth in EMEA region

    15 May 2012

    Apollo Fire Detectors Ltd has made two new appointments to its EMEA Board of Directors


  • Lancaster warehouse blaze believed to be arson

    14 May 2012

    A fire which broke out in a disused warehouse in Lancaster is believed to have been started deliberately. Fire crews were called to the five-storey facility on St George's Quay on ...


  • Domestic sprinkler saves Hull woman's life

    14 May 2012

    Fire chiefs in Hull have praised a domestic sprinkler system for saving the life of an elderly woman just under five weeks after it was fitted. Humberside Fire and Rescue Service ...


  • Fire minister announces ruling on hotel bedroom door case

    11 May 2012

    Fire minister Bob Neil has called on the responsible person of a hotel to carry out a new fire risk assessment in order to resolve a dispute over how to ...