A man has died following a fire in a residential block of flats on Westmoreland Drive in Sutton, which was attended by crews from the London Fire Brigade. Two fire engines and around ten firefighters from Sutton and Wallington fire stations responded to the incident in the early hours of yesterday morning (October 18th). Around one quarter of the second-floor… read more →
Crews from Highlands & Islands Fire & Rescue Service have helped rescue elderly care home residents from a major fire that broke out at a nursing home in the Inverness area. Some 59 residents of Culloden Court and 12 members of staff were led to safety from the facility located on the outskirts of Inverness after the fire alarm was… read more →
The owners of a restaurant in the south-west of England have been fined thousands of pounds for breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service brought legal proceedings against the people responsible for the Indian restaurant known as Mutley Spice, who were each fined £4,000 and ordered to pay court costs of… read more →
Concerns over the safety of a nursery on the top floor of an eight-storey block of flats should a fire break out have resulted in the closure of the school, it has been reported. A new report has revealed that health and safety inspectors were concerned with the underlying danger at Westfield Court Nursery School, which carried “a significant risk”… read more →
A Kent-based construction and engineering company has been fined after an employee suffered severe burns when his jack hammer touched unexposed underground electricity cables. Bradley Marsh, 28, from Ashford suffered 62 per cent burns to his upper body, face, neck and arms when he inadvertently struck the 11,000 volt cable while working at a construction site in Tovil, Maidstone. An… read more →
Magistrates have ordered a hotel manager to pay fines and costs totalling £5,355 after a detection and alarm system failed to activate in a fire. Nine residents were staying at the Plume of Feathers at Harley, near Shrewsbury, in the early hours of July 27 last year when the wife of the hotel manager opened the bedroom door to find… read more →
A luxury hotel near Manchester has had to pay £127,000 for what a judge called a ‘cavalier disregard’ for the safety of guests. Hallmark Hotels pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 at Chester Crown Court yesterday (05 Oct 2010). The Hallmark Manchester – formerly the Belfry House Hotel in Wilmslow – was visited… read more →
A Berkshire pub landlord has been slammed by local magistrates for putting the lives of his customers at risk by failing to carry out proper fire risk assessments on his premises. Officers from the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFA) visited the 2nd Stop Pub, run by Bhupinder jit Singh Mann, back in March 2009 and noted a series… read more →
The owners of the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay are to be prosecuted for offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order. Three people died in a fire at the hotel on 18 August 2007 in what was the most serious hotel fire in the UK for 30 years. More than 80 people managed to escape, but the hotel was destroyed.… read more →
Crisp-maker Walkers Snack Foods Ltd and chemical distributor Omnichem Ltd have been fined a total of £350,000 after a worker was killed by a cloud of toxic gas. John Marriott, 59, was working for Omnichem on 19 July 2006 when he was seriously affected by green chlorine dioxide fumes. The HSE, which brought the prosecution, told Leicester Crown Court that… read more →
