by Admin | Sep 1, 2016 | News, Source Fire News
The fire brigade is urging home owners to have life-saving smoke alarms fitted as new figures show they were missing in a third of fatal fires according to ITV.com. Mains powered domestic smoke alarm, Credit: Press Association The largest report into such incidents in...
by Admin | Feb 2, 2016 | News, Prosecutions
Housing manager Lewisham Homes has been fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £23,407 prosecution costs for breaking fire safety laws following a fatal fire in a Deptford tower block in which two women died according to London Fire Brigade. Lewisham Homes were sentenced at...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2016 | News
The former leaseholder of a Walworth public house has received a 16 month suspended prison sentence for breaking fire safety laws following a successful prosecution by London Fire Brigade. At a sentencing hearing at Inner London Crown Court on Monday (25 January),...
by Admin | Dec 13, 2015 | News, Source Fire News
A resident fleeing a blaze in a block of flats was forced to run past the flames to escape, due to fire safety breaches that left her unable to get out any other way, a court has heard according to Lancashire Evening Post. Another man who escaped a ground floor flat...
