Free Check On Fire Safety For Caravans

Caravan owners have been urged by the fire brigade to apply the same home based fire safety measures to their caravans as they carry the same risks as those at home. The Lincolnshire Fire & Rescue Service are looking at static homes and holiday areas in Winthorpe, Chapel St Leonards and Skegness with their safety […]

Bathroom Factory Hit By Arson

The fire service in Stoke-on-Trent has reported that a fire in a former bathroom factory was started deliberately. The disused building on Botteslow Street in Hanley was attended to by fire crews at around 10pm on Saturday night. The fire was brought under control at the three storey building after about 2 hours, although the […]

Fires Ravage Mediterranean

Wildfires are still being fought by firefighters in several parts of the Mediterranean which began several days ago and have left eight people dead so far. Huge amounts of land in France, Spain, Greece and Sardinia have been destroyed by the fires which have been fuelled by extreme temperatures and hard winds. The fires in […]

Stolen Lorry Set On Fire

Saturday 25th July 2009 A lorry which was hijacked and possibly shot at on Friday in Lurgan was taken to a nearby railway line and set on fire. The police say upto three men ordered the driver to get out of his vehicle in the Lake Street area at around 3am. One man received a […]

Man Hospitalised in Flat Fire

Saturday 25th July 2009 A man who was rescued from a flat fire in Nottingham has been taken to hospital. Two fire engines attended the scene of the blaze after it broke out in the ground floor flat on Saturday morning in Neward Crescent, Sneiton. Firefighters managed to pull the man from the fire and […]