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Restaurant owners fined for fire safety order breaches
10 Aug 2010North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has issued a reminder for businesses to ensure they comply with fire safety requirements after a restaurant owner was slapped with a fine of £15,000 for not abiding by the rules.
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Lancashire false fire alarm reduction plans criticised
06 Aug 2010Controversial plans by Lancashire fire and rescue services to cut automatic fire alarm call outs have raised concerns that they could end up putting lives at risk, it has been reported.
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Somerset hospital calls fire services 170 times over false fire alarms
05 Aug 2010Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service has wasted more than £60,000 responding to false fire alarms at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, it has been revealed.
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Atomic base fire prompts evacuation and 600 metre cordon
05 Aug 2010Fire detection and alarm systems could have been critical in alerting staff at Britain's main nuclear weapons factory about a fire, which forced them to be evacuated over safety fears.
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Fire not getting the recognition it warrants in building sustainability
05 Aug 2010Graham Ellicott, CEO of the Fire Industry Association (FIA), has called for those involved in improving the sustainability of buildings to recognise the role that fire safety has to play in that process and to reflect this in the standards and best practi