Bargain fire risk assessment? You get what you pay for!

Thanks to Volkswagen for developing this brilliant commercial that has sentiments that apply equally to fire risk assessment – you get exactly what you pay for. The purpose of the fire risk assessment is to provide building owners, managers and occupiers with...

Council’s £3m legal bill over tower block fire

A council has spent more than £3  million in legal fees preparing for an inquest into the deaths of six people killed in a tower block fire. Three adults and three children died in the blaze at Lakanal House in Camberwell after a defective television switch started a...

Hotel pays £50,000 for fire safety offences

A hotel company has had to pay £50,000 in fines and costs after breaching fire safety legislation. Chescombe Ltd – owner of Tantons Hotel in Bideford – was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £10,000 in costs at Exeter Crown Court on 20 September. The company had...

Seven homeless after care home blaze

Firefighters were called to a care home on the Essex coast on Thursday August 23rd when a blaze broke out in the building, leaving seven people homeless. The incident occurred at The Firs on Thorpe Road in Frinton-on-Sea at around 5.50pm. It was caused when a drink...

Care home fined for fire safety breaches

The owners of a care home in Kendray, Barnsley, have had to pay more than £11,000 in fines and costs for breaching fire safety legislation. Park Care Ltd, the owners of Park Grange nursing home, pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety)...