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Firefighters have slammed the UK fire safety system as a "complete failure" after a fire in a block of student flats left two injured. It took 40 firetrucks and around 200 firefighters hours to finally quell the flames on the six-storey building in Bolton - known as The Cube - in the early hours of this morning. Witnesses claimed the fire was "crawling up the cladding like it was nothing" as people were being evacuated, with one having to be rescued by crews on an aerial platform. [Read More]
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Every resident in a high-rise property in Scotland is to be given fire safety advice based on practices introduced since the Grenfell Tower disaster. Leaflets on how to prevent fires in the home and what to do if one starts in the building are being distributed. Changes were introduced in Scotland three months ago to building and safety standards for high-rises. [Read More]
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The government has established a ‘protection board’ to ensure buildings clad with Grenfell-style materials are safe while they wait for remediation work.The board, which is chaired by the National Fire Chiefs Council, has taken responsibility for the safety of all 318 buildings around the UK that still have dangerous aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding installed. [Read More]
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Figures released by Eaton have shown that more than one in four universities have have received complaints from students, staff or the public in the last five years regarding fire safety or building evacuation procedures. According to the information, many universities are abiding by the minimum standards required by regulation and are investing in existing technology which can improve safety standards. [Read More]
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Grenfell survivors tell party leaders safety delays will cost lives. In a stark election intervention, people who escaped the west London blaze and bereaved family and friends told Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson of their “deep and grave concern that a Grenfell-like fire is going to occur again”. [Read More]
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The Fire Sector Summit 2019 Review. Opening this year’s London event in November, the FPA’s managing director Jonathan O’Neill remarked that the recommendations in the recent Grenfell Tower public inquiry first phase report were ‘much in line with expectations’, but added that the observations on fire and rescue service (FRS) management failures had ‘caused the greatest stir’. [Read More]
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