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A Rare Success: Lancashire FRS Gets a Result for Fire Safety Breaches in Blackpool Hotel

Well done to Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service for pursuing this course of action. Unfortunately, they are very much an outlier in the world of...

Public Disorder and the Corona Virus: “ Three meals away from chaos”

With expectations for the end of the six-week lockdown rising there are is a huge amount of hope focussed on the 25th May as the...

Sprinklers : A race to the bottom

Another Near Miss in a Block of Flats

The fire at Barking Reach, London once again shows that there is a systemic problem with the way that fire safety in the residential sector...

The Unforeseen Price of Success

Fire and rescue services had phenomenal success in recent years in reducing the number of fires, injuries and deaths. The success has been achieved against...

Nothing New Under the Sun: Grenfell Tower 2017 and Summerland 1973

  Despite the claims that the fire at Grenfell Tower was “unprecedented”, the facts tend to disproved this assertion. Instead, we find that while the...

Grenfell Tower: Some Considerations

As the enquiry starts to make its way through the labyrinth of material to try to understand what has gone wrong and how to prevent...

Grenfell Tower Inquiry Begins

High Rise Building – a safe home or death threat? As the Grenfell Tower Inquiry begins, there is likely to be suggestions from some, that...