Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service are asking residents to be vigilant in the Hollinswood area of Telford following several rubbish fires and a wheelie bin fire.
Crews from Telford central were called out to a rubbish fire in an underpass, off Duffryn at 2:26am on Sunday 20th March.
Crews were called out again last night, Monday 21st March 2011, to another rubbish fire the same location at 6:41pm, a report of a wheelie bin on fire at Downton Court, more
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service are urging people to stop and think about the consequences of gorse and grass fires following seven gorse fires in the Catherton Common and Clee Hill areas in the last two weeks.
Recent dry weather has increased the risk of rural fires and some of these incidents are believed to have been ignited deliberately or have involved uncontrolled burning by landowners leaving fires unattended.
These fires often get out of control when they are left more
Get a smoke alarm and test it weekly – that is the stark advice to Shropshire residents from county firefighters to avoid dying from toxic smoke in a house fire.
Just two to three breaths of toxic smoke and “you're unconscious,” warned community fire safety officers at Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service.
“Toxic smoke affects your ability to breathe. It is a sensation similar to drowning,” said John Das Gupta, Head of Fire Prevention.
Last year a 21-year-old Shropshire more
Shropshire firefighters donned special air tight chemical protection suits to tackle a reported ammonia leak during a large scale training exercise at a major food storage and distribution depot.
The planned exercise was at Grocontinental’s compound in Whitchurch Business Park – one of the largest freezer stores in Europe and a major Shropshire employer with 300 staff.
With 120,000 palletts stacked to the roof with food from across the world, the 25 acre site was a realistic more
Police in Telford are appealing for witnesses following a suspicious fire in Donnington. The incident occurred on St Matthews Road on Tuesday 1 March.
At just after 2am police received reports that three individuals had been seen walking down the road carrying a petrol can. On attending St Matthews Road, police discovered that a blue MG ZR car was on fire and the fire service was called immediately.
One fire appliance from Wellington attended and dealt with the car fire it more
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service firefighters were called out at 10.30pm on Wednesday 23rd February to a large quantity of pallets on fire outside a unit on Halesfield 17, Telford. As the fire is believed to have been started deliberately, we are advising the business community to be alert and report any suspicious activity to the police.
SFRS advice to prevent arson is:
In six week’s time (6th April, 2011) switchover to digital television reaches north Shropshire and south Cheshire and the ‘Helping Hand’ campaign urges everyone to make sure older and disabled people in their area know about the help they can get from the Help Scheme to switch to digital TV.
Helping Hand is all about the local community checking friends, relatives and neighbours have taken the appropriate steps to make sure their TVs are ‘switchover-ready’, as on the 6th April BBC 2 more
The cost of running the county's fire and rescue service will remain the same at £1.61 a week for the average Shropshire householder as the fire authority announces a tax freeze for 2011/12.
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is one of the best performing services in England but receives one of the lowest Government grants per head of population out of all the fire and rescue services in the country.
But Councillor Stuart West, chairman of Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority more
Shropshire firefighters are urging chip lovers to take care when deep fat frying following an incident in which a couple’s home was severely smoke damaged.
There were 41 kitchen fires involving chip pans and frying in the county in 2008/2009 reduced to just 13 last year after successful fire prevention advice from Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service.
But some people are still refusing to use a thermostatically controlled chip pan despite numerous warnings about the dangers of an more
Friendship group for over 60's.
A Fire Safety in the Home talk by officers of the Community Fire Safety department.
Further information or to contact the group, please call Mrs Wilcox 01299 270560.
For further details on the talk, please contact Delyth Humphreys 01743 260279.
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service
Service Headquarters
St Michael's Street
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY1 2HJ
Tel: 01743 260 200
Email: enquiries@shropshirefire.gov.uk
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