WCoFF Fire News Desk
The festival of Diwali takes place every year this year it falls on 19 October. It is known as 'Festival of the Lights' as it is believed that light signifies goodness and 'diyas', or oil lamps, and candles are burnt throughout the day and into the night to ward off darkness and evil. Fireworks are also used in the celebrations. The use of naked flames increases the risk of fire at Diwali ...
Paul Fuller CBE, Bedfordshire's Chief Fire Officer and Chair of Trustees of Children's Burns Trust visited Lakeview Primary School in Bedford on Tuesday (17/10). On the eve of Burns Awareness Day (18/10), CFO Fuller spoke to a group of Year 6 children about ‘Stop, drop and roll” which is used when clothing catches fire. With Halloween just around the corner Bedfordshire Fire and Re ...
A landlady with two properties in Paignton has been sentenced to eight months in prison suspended for 18 months after pleading guilty to offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Kay Godtschalk, the owner and landlady of 2 Warefield Road and 15 Esplanade Road in Paignton, appeared at Exeter Crown Court on Monday 9 October 2017. She pleaded guilty to a total of eight offenc ...
Eleven students have graduated from Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service’s (CFRS) Firebreak course, a programme designed to inspire young people in the county. Students from years 8 to 11 from Jack Hunt School in Peterborough graduated at an impressive pass-out parade at Stanground Fire Station on Friday September 29. They demonstrated their rescue and drill skills in front of proud par ...
Emergency services carried out an exercise at Exeter Cathedral which involved a live ‘casualty’ being winched down the side of the building. Three fire crews, a specialist line rescue team, and the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) from South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust were at the scene. They simulated the rescue of an adult casualty from the bell tower by lower ...
Fire Fighters from Kempston were called to Worcester Road, Bedford at 4.41pm yesterday (27th September 2017) after a bonfire at the property spread to two domestic sheds at an adjoining property. Crews had to force entry to the property and used one hose reel, a triple extension ladder, thermal imaging camera and stack drags to extinguish the fire.Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service would like t ...
