West Sussex fire service planning huge cuts

West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service (WSFRS) has announced draft proposals to cut £1.6 million from its budget for 2015/16 according to frmjournal. The proposals will be considered by West Sussex County Council’s Environment and Community Services Select...

Hotel beautician engulfed in fireball

A Lancashire hotel has admitted health and safety failings after a beautician suffered serious burns when she was engulfed in flames. Blackpool Magistrates’ Court heard Julie McKeown was working at The Dalmeny Hotel in Lytham St. Annes when the incident took place on...

Restaurant fire safety

Thai Manor boss spared jail after troubling fire safety breaches. A former restaurant boss who put customers’ lives at risk has been spared jail, but ordered to pay costs totalling more than £5,000 according to sunderlandecho. A judge said the fire safety breaches by...

Tragic Death followed a catalogue of Fire Safety Failures

A coroner at an inquest investigating the death of a woman at a London apartment in 2012, has severely criticised the managers of the housing block where she died.  And even more shockingly, the bosses of property firm the Komoto Group have failed in their duty to...

Building ‘failed’ in fatal fire

Inquest hears that Irene Cockerton, of Gibson Court, Hinchley Wood, died in the fire. Gibson Court residents were “let down” by the building after a fire ripped the roof space and destroyed flats within less than 90 minutes, an inquest heard, according to...

Carmen Cairns jailed for starting flat fire in Glasgow

A woman who started a fire which caused flats in Glasgow to be evacuated has been jailed for five years according to bbc.co.uk. Carmen Cairns, 28, admitted setting fire to a mattress in the stairwell of the flats in Dennistoun in July 2013. The High Court in Edinburgh...