THE FIRE Sector Federation is now beginning work on developing a strategy document designed to help predict the key evolving fire safety risks over the next 20 years and link them to action that’s needed right now in order to best mitigate future impacts. [Read More]

ESRI UK has unveiled the detail underpinning a new partnership with drone specialist heliguy designed to complete its end-to-end drone solution for the Emergency Services industry. The final piece in Esri UK’s strategy to offer all parts of the drone workflow, the partnership will provide customers with drone hardware, payloads and pilot training from heliguy combined with Esri’s drone flight planning, data capture, data processing and GIS software. [Read More]

RESULTS FROM a survey conducted by fire safety technology manufacturer Geofire find that 53% of fire safety professionals have witnessed an increase in fire doors being wedged open since the start of the pandemic. [Read More]

THE CONTINUED need for The Fire Fighters Charity’s mental health support services has been highlighted with the publication of research claiming that 65% of the UK’s Fire and Rescue Service personnel have seen a deterioration in their mental health during the pandemic. [Read More]

THE INSTITUTION of Fire Engineers (IFE) has been working alongside Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures UK (CROSS-UK) with a view towards expanding the latter’s remit to include reporting on fire safety. Individuals are now able to share their concerns about – and experiences of – fire and structural safety through a confidential safety reporting system. [Read More]

RECENTLY, AN article authored by Lars Rohde (the Governor of Denmark’s National Bank) was published in The Financial Times and highlighted the fact that a bank’s capital buffer should work much like a sprinkler system. In other words, writes Iain Cox, it exists to ensure a bank can continue to provide credit in times of crisis, much like a sprinkler contains a fire prior to the arrival of the Fire and Rescue Service. [Read More]

A NEW report on the role of fire extinguishers, funded and supported by IFEDA (the Independent Fire Engineering and Distributors Association), has just been published. The report has been produced “with the aim of providing an evidence-based assessment of the role of portable fire extinguishers in dwellings” with a keen focus on private dwellings and Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs). [Read More]

THE OWNER of a Tandoori restaurant and takeaway in Wallingford has been fined for multiple breaches of fire-safety legislation which put lives in danger. The case was heard at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court. [Read More]