Amy Rowe reports on a fire service initiative on show at Fire and Rescue 2010 which claims a 75% reduction in school fires over the last seven years.

A strategic review of the fire and rescue service and the future extent of government involvement in it – as well as a re-appraisal of FireControl – has been announced by fire minister Bob Neill.

False alarm solutions for HMOs, developments in Hazmat training, and the use of lifts during evacuation are just three of the free seminar sessions on offer at Fire and Rescue 2010 this week. The...

A fire has gutted the cookery school building at River Cottage HQ, the famous home of TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

A police constable has been praised for his bravery after he ran into a blazing building and rescued 15 people in the early hours of Saturday 4 February.

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.

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.

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.

Find out where and when Firex South will be taking place.

An external fire risk assessor and a hotel manager have both been jailed for eight months for fire safety offences.

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.

The long awaited competency criteria for fire risk assessors have been published as a draft document for public comment.

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.

The Fire Industry Association has branded the decision of some English fire and rescue services not to respond to certain automatic fire alarms as ‘madness’.