A Shropshire pensioner’s help to publicise a campaign by Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service to get every county home to have a smoke alarm is soon to spread nationwide.
Retired schoolteacher Margaret Leverett (63) urged every householder...
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11th November, 2011
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service and West Mercia police are concerned over the growing number of arson attacks on empty commercial buildings.
Derek Taylor the arson reduction officer said “Since 27th October 2011 there have been four...
10th November, 2011
A Shropshire pensioner has rued the day she didn’t have a smoke alarm fitted in her century old family home after it was seriously damaged by fire.
Retired schoolteacher Margaret Leverett (63) surveyed the black and smoke damaged house...
4th November, 2011
Shropshire businesses are being warned to check their fire safety after fire officers identified a “worrying trend” among some firms which are putting lives at risk.
Fast food outlets with accommodation above are especially at risk.
... 3rd November, 2011
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service were called out to 3 incidents within 45 minutes last night on the Brookside area of Telford.
The first call was at 7.35pm to a report of a wheelie bin on fire on The Skate Park in Beaconsfield. A second...
1st November, 2011
Householders who are elderly or vulnerable through ill health must be given the chance to get important and potentially lifesaving fire safety advice, warned Shropshire’s fire prevention chief.
John Das Gupta is urging family, friends and...
28th October, 2011
A fire sprinkler system saved a leading Shropshire firm from any potential production problems after fire broke out in the building.
Fire officers have praised the Telford company for its fire safety procedures in having an essential...
17th October, 2011
Don’t forget to get your chimney swept before the cold weather begins – that is the message to Shropshire householders to avert a blaze this Winter.
Shropshire firefighters attended 189 chimney fires in the county in 2010/11 and statistics...
10th October, 2011
Fire safety advice will be on the shopping list for visitors to two Shropshire supermarkets in Telford and Shrewsbury all next week.
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service has linked up with Sainsbury’s stores in the Telford Retail Park and at...
19th September, 2011
Be vigilant – that is the message from Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service after a series of possible arson attacks to gorse and grassland in south Shropshire.
Firefighters have attended nine fires around the Catherton Common area, near...
