Residents have been left fuming after being handed an ‘astronomical’ bill for fire safety measures, of which just the admin costs run into more than £56,000 - two days before Christmas.
BB7 Fire Safety Engineering, based in Chatham, Kent, is the first company to gain approval under the fire risk assessment quality assurance scheme (FRACS) run by Warrington Certification.
After two days' hard graft at Fire and Rescue 2010, I was looking forward to a good night's sleep in my Harrogate hotel room...writes James Blue of organiser UBM Live.
The need for a single resister of professional fire risk assessors working to a unified set of competency standards was high on the agenda at the first morning’s seminar sessions at Firex North.
Residents have been left fuming after being handed an ‘astronomical’ bill for fire safety measures, of which just the admin costs run into more than £56,000 - two days before Christmas.
Firefighters have expressed “anger and dismay” at comments by a fire chief, who is accused of playing down the importance of their role in favour of sprinklers after a recent supermarket blaze.